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Boys With Movable Heads
Bronze and iron · 25 × 10 × 15 cm · Special edition of 3 units · Year 2025
Boys With Movable Heads brings together three child figures that serve as metaphors for the different strategies we develop to relate to an increasingly complex world. The work invites us to reflect on how we filter, avoid, or reinterpret reality, and how those decisions end up shaping our identity.
This piece incorporates an interactive element: the heads are interchangeable and attached with a magnet, allowing the viewer to modify the aesthetics and message according to the configuration they choose. A simple game that transforms the sculpture into an open reflection on perception.
The hermetic helmet head suggests an inner refuge: the tendency to shut ourselves off from the outside world to avoid emotional impact. It is the image of a mind that prefers its own sphere rather than exposing itself to the unpredictable.
The television head points to the constant influence of the images we consume. It represents a reality filtered by screens, where the media weighs as much—or more—than lived experience.
A commentary on the artificial construction of the world that we accept as true.
The gas mask embodies the feeling of permanent alertness. It symbolizes the need to protect ourselves from an environment that we perceive as saturated, toxic, or threatening, whether for real reasons or because of acquired fears.
The box-head, added to this ensemble, delves into a different critique: the inability to receive external ideas, stimuli, or perspectives. It functions as a metaphor for a closed mind, blocked by excessive consumption, information overload, or intellectual passivity. The box not only hides; it limits. It represents how certain contemporary habits—consumerism, mental automation, cognitive comfort—can turn us into passive receivers incapable of questioning or integrating what surrounds us. It is, in itself, a direct critique of the culture that pushes us to accumulate objects but not thoughts.
Together, these figures offer a commentary on strategies for emotional and cognitive survival: isolating ourselves, filtering, protecting ourselves, disconnecting, or even giving up thinking for ourselves. A single body and several interchangeable heads thus form a small portrait of how we navigate modern life, what masks we adopt, and what versions of ourselves we present depending on what we face.
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