Visage Raviné

Faceless Head No. 002

  • Dimensions: 25 × 35 cm
  • Materials: Terracotta, steel filings, natural pigments, rust
  • Year: 2015
  • Availability: Unique piece
  • Price: Upon request

Artistic Description of the Head
The rough, pitted surface of this head evokes a face shaped by time. The dark cavities, where features seem to barely emerge, reflect the gradual disappearance of identity. The material, altered by corrosion, gives the work an organic, almost fossil-like intensity.

Artistic Description of the Collection
The “100 Faceless Heads” series explores memory and erasure. Each sculpture acts as a silent witness to the fragility of existence, offering a reflection on transmission, forgetting, and the mark we leave on collective history.

Symbolism
This head embodies the erosion of identity under the effect of time and hardship. It symbolizes the fragility of memory and the struggle against oblivion, where each scar becomes a testament.

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The “100 Heads WITHOUT Faces” Collection
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.

A committed and universal message

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.