Faceless Head No. 82
Artistic Description of the Head
This head, with its barely sketched features, seems to emerge from a raw block. The eyes are reduced to two square protrusions, almost closed, as if the gaze were withdrawn from the outside world. The mouth, meanwhile, blends into the material, leaving a face that hesitates between appearance and disappearance. The roughness of the surface recalls the texture of a stone torn from the earth.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In the 100 Faceless Heads project, this piece embodies the essence of simplicity and restraint. It shows that a face can exist without defined features, without recognizable details. It is a meditation on the boundary between the formed and the formless, between the individual and the anonymous.
Symbolism
This head evokes muteness and voluntary effacement. It questions our relationship to identity: when nothing is said, when nothing is shown, what remains of us? The raw material becomes silent memory, a testament to humanity reduced to its most elementary form.
A sculpted memory, a universal story
The “100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” collection brings together one hundred unique sculptures, handcrafted from terracotta and rusted metal. These works embody the invisible faces of our collective history: undocumented migrants drowned at sea, victims of slavery, those forgotten in genocides, the anonymous whose memories are fading.
Each of these heads, deliberately devoid of features, symbolizes a life, a past, a suspended history. Faceless, they become the silent bearers of individual and collective memories, inviting us to reflect on our shared humanity.
Through this series, the artist invites us to acknowledge these erased lives and to rebuild bridges between the past and the future. “I open the graves of the undocumented migrants who drown in the seas and in the deserts, I denounce the macabre sounds of the cannons of war…”, he affirms, thus expressing the emotional and political power of this work.
“100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” is much more than an art collection: it is a sculptural archive, a call to remembrance, to dialogue, and to a better understanding of our common roots. Faceless Head no.
Passionate about collective memory and questions of identity, the artist works with clay and metal to give form to what is often invisible or forgotten. Through the series “100 Heads Without Faces,” he offers a space for reflection and dialogue on the wounds of the past and the hopes for a more just future.
