Banksy confirms that the statue that appeared in central London is his

BarcelonaBanksy has done it again. The artist has confirmed through a video published on social media that the statue that has appeared in the last few hours in central London is his work. It is a sculpture erected on a pedestal that represents, on a natural scale, a man dressed as a politician holding a flag with his right hand that covers his face. The man walks with a firm step and is about to fall into the void. The statue was first seen this Wednesday, and within a few hours, the police surrounded it with metal fences.

The statue is installed on Waterloo Place avenue, halfway between Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace, near the monument to those fallen in the Crimean War and statues erected in honor of historical figures such as Edward VII and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Banksy, whose identity is unknown and remains the subject of speculation, has reviewed in the video confirming the authorship of the work to other emblematic monuments of the English capital, from the Big Ben tower to various equestrian statues or the monument to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In the video, a man is asked for his opinion on the statue: "I don't like it," he replies.

This is not the first statue Banksy has installed in London. In 2004, he installed the statue The drinker in a small square in Princes Circus, on Shaftesbury Avenue, a kind of satirical version ofThe Thinker by Rodin. But the most recent confirmed work by the artist in the British capital until now was a mural of two children lying on the ground and pointing to the sky. The message of the work was a criticism of the homelessness problem, as the children pointed to Centre Point Tower, a symbol of the homelessness crisis in London.