Enigmatic faces, masks, broken bronze portraits covered with gold leaf or platinum by Boky Hackel-Ward present reinterpretations and transfigurations of her enigmatic face — sphinxes of mystery that materialise a tenacious will to affirm her attitude and artistic identity.

The artist, in her experimental eclecticism, in search of her artistic daimon, autonomous and self-aware, finds in sculpture a code of renewal of the intangible and the spiritual, practised assiduously between 2013 and 2016 — years of fervent study and work.

Boky Hackel-Ward is a restorer, painter, musician, performer and photographer who trained in Florence, where she breathed, lived and absorbed the “grammar” of the Renaissance. Always passionate about poetry and fascinated by the sound of words, with these sculptures she shows a surprising artistic maturity in her ability to conjugate poetry and figuration.

At the foundry, battling the wax and then the bronze, in the interpenetration of poetry and anthropomorphic, stylised figures, she combines words and shapes to give life to sculptures that become éternelles.

Her rigorous search for the re-novatio of classicism and the recollection of Visual Poetry materialise into bodies that invite reflection on the difference between the male and female component.

— Jacqueline Ceresoli, Art Critic