Heroes

The Heroes sculpture was first exhibited in 2021 at the solo show "Heroes and Monsters". A monumentally heavy and static work, The Heroes’ Skiff depicts a row of oarsmen whose very posture communicates exhaustion – both physical and existential. The composition’s focus is not their faces (heads bowed, hidden from view) but their scarred backs, lashed by whips. Their muscular bodies and discarded helmets at their feet suggest captured warriors, now enslaved – heroes reduced to laborers. The Heroes is the sculptor's meditation on the duality of concepts like good and evil, hero and slave – their fragility and vulnerability. For some, these warriors are heroes; for others, they are mere bondsmen, carrying out the orders of others. History is not an exact science, and collective memory is malleable. Tragically, in some societies, what was once considered evil can be recast tomorrow as a heroic deed. One of humanity’s greatest challenges is not only to learn from the past but also to prevent that past from becoming mere putty in the hands of those in power.