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The work takes its cue from the manilla, the currency of exchange used during the slave trade, to make a reflection on modern oppressions. Today manilla no longer circulates but man has not freed himself from other slavery: the rope that surrounds the figures is like a noose that binds them in a condition (concrete or mental) of enslavement with respect to the “choices” imposed by society. The rope, however, has no knots: humanity binds itself autonomously to the apathy of its comfort zone, without operating actions of freedom. Only the child is free from any kind of bond because it is not yet subject to external influences.