Panamá Caníbal: Despojos del Festín

The risky, for brave and committed, proposal of conceptual art presented by Miguel Lombardo and Susana González Revilla, transports the spectator without preamble, situating him in front of one of 
the most brutal and inhumane social problematics of the current world situation, also in Panama as part of the globalized world.

The context of child sexual violence includes sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. It is the most extreme form of adult violence against children and has devastating effects on the lives of children who suffer from it. It involves the use of minors in acts of a sexual nature in exchange for a consideration, usually economic. In addition, trafficking with human beings is a transnational crime..

The work on display includes an installation that capture the horrified testimony, silent, invisible – and unseen by our society – of thousands of doubly innocent victims for their maximum vulnerability: childhood. The aim is to immerse the viewer in a dark, atrocious reality that approaches from paedophilia to all forms of commercial exploitation to induce to the reflection. Thus sensitizing the public awareness that these are children’s, therefore, it could well be our own daughter, a brother…

– Marina Murai
Anthropologist-researcher, forensic scientist & writer