The Headless paintings are an homage to Max Ernst’s collage novel La femme 100 têtes (The Hundred Headless Woman, 1929), in which the artist revisits the book’s surrealist imagery through a contemporary lens. Inspired by Ernst’s mysterious collages and his feathered alter ego Loplop, the artist develops a multilayered visual world in which the boundaries between human and animal, past and present, myth and reality become blurred. The series combines personal, mythological and political themes into a suggestive narrative about transformation, identity and power. The result is a brutal cosmos of fragmented bodies and hybrid beings that examines the uncanny and multifaceted meaning of “headless”.
