“Dystopia” seems to be the passworrd of this year to try to give space and attention to known themes, addressed but not yet resolved. Margaret Atwood’s maids have moved from the written narrative of their creator to the small screen, conquering several Emmys. Others are waiting for the new season of “The Man In The High Castle“, to find out how Japanese and Nazi will manage America and the world.

In reality it seems almost impossible to divide the art world from this trend, so much so that it’s hardly surprising when it is re-proposed by the Spanish artist David de la Mano in some of his last works in London.

In one of them, according to a movement that look like a Dante circle, or at least as it has always been represented over time, soldiers with, rather strange features, march. Heads of other animals such as dogs and birds replace for some of the protagonists human ones, in an artistic work that wants to be linked to one of the most pressing themes of recent years, that of migrants.

De la Mano’s shadows run away from hunger, poverty, war and death to look for their place in the world facing waves, chaos, fear and seem to temporarily find a place on the facades of walls and palaces.