Multimedia artist Erik Ravelo and Daniel Ferreira's Los Intocables project has been banned from Facebook.
This project deals with the rights of children and their exploitation at the hands of adults: a priest representing sexual abuse, a doctor representing organ trafficking, a soldier representing the cost of war, and a hooded figure carrying automatic weapons representing school shooting are displayed, along with others. The children are crucified, in a sense, to each of their representative villains, their faces blurred, indicating a loss of identity. While the aggressors in the photos are against the wall in an almost criminal way, leaving their backs to the children indicates a kind of disregard. “The right to childhood should be untouchable” is the tagline of the project. View some of the imagery in the below video:
A petition has been started to allow the work to be displayed on Facebook. It reads, in part:
On September 19, 2013, the Facebook Fan Page of the artist Erik Ravelo, currently working as the creative director of Fabrica in Italy, was censored by Facebook, deleted, and taken off the popular social media website.
Ravelo sent Complex this message:
AND FINALLY FACEBOOK DECIDE TO SHUT DOWN MY PAGE!!!! ERIK RAVELO ART!!!! SO IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO SHOW MY ART ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALMENTE FACEBOOK HA DECISO DI RIMUOVERE LA MIA PAGINA ERIK RAVELO ART!!!! NON è PIU VISIBILE SU FACEBOOK. FINALMENTE FACEBOOK DECIDIO' DE QUITAR MI PAGINA ERIK RAVELO ART!! CENSURED!!!!!!
Ravelo is a Cuban-born artist. He’s currently working with the Fabrica group, which is the communications arm of Benetton; he was responsible for the “Unhate" campaign there, which featured world leaders kissing.
You can see the full set of Los Inocables photos by Ravelo and photographer Enrico Bossan at Ravelo’s website.
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