Head Without a Face No. 064
Artistic Description of the Head
This head appears to be covered with a veil of material, where organic reliefs are superimposed like layers of memory and time. The face, barely sketched, almost disappears beneath the rough thickness of the clay, as if the human form were trying to hide within the texture.
Artistic Description of the Collection
In the series 100 Heads Without Faces, this piece reflects the effacement of the individual in favor of matter and universal essence. Here, anonymity takes on a spiritual dimension, where the disappearance of features becomes a metaphor for the effacement of the ego.
Symbolism
The veiled head evokes the invisible, the hidden, the mystery. It symbolizes the boundary between the visible and the unknown, reminding us that what remains concealed or hidden sometimes carries more power than what is openly displayed.
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 story suspended in time. 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.
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.
