Susanna Inglada recently made two monumental collage drawings entitled The City. In them she depicts a constellation of human figures that partly also are a kind of buildings. The women have long necks like chimneys, their long wavy hair forms a kind of smoke plumes. The people and the city thus merge with each other.
As often in Inglada's work, there is also the struggle for power between people. The figures in the upper part wear clothes the ones at the bottom are naked, a contrast between the haves and the have nots. In both works a man is held upside down and moved downward by the women. Susanna Inglada thus addresses the emancipation of women and the changing roles of men and women.
The imagery reminds us of Picasso or Leger but also large murals from the 1950s that convey a political message. Besides that one can also discover classical influences, the woman at the lower left resembles an antique river goddess and the falling men are reminiscent of figures from Baroque frescoes.