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Calchi facciale, 2023
Plaster sculpture with steel and wood
45h x 47w x 32d cm
Plaster sculpture with steel and wood
45h x 47w x 32d cm
In Calchi facciale, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a key figure in the establishment of the Code Noir, which defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, bears an anthropological facial cast. The work references the justifications for colonial expropriation developed through the invention of “racial sciences” in Europe, running parallel to the affirmation of a genealogy traced to Greek and Roman antiquity in the development of European Humanism — which, under its ideology of universalism, masked the reality that most of humanity was excluded from its protections and rights.