Donna Conlon (Atlanta, 1966) and Jonathan Harker (Quito, 1975), they both live and work in Panama City. Conlon’s work is a socio-archeological search of her immediate surroundings: she picks up and collects images and object from everyday life, and uses them to reveal human idiosyncrasies and the contradictions of our contemporary lifestyle. Harker uses irony and hyperbole to subvert language and traditional storytelling conventions. His work showcases the seams and gaps which reveal the fabricated nature of personal and collective identities and realities. Harker and Conlon started to work together in 2006. Their videos and installations use the inherent properties of discarded objects to comment on the shaping of identities, consumerism, accumulation of waste, and climate. Invisible Hands is a video that addresses social and financial power structures and the symbolic nature of money. The video shows the artists' hands engaged in a series of shifting interactions centered around a collection of panamanian “balboa” coins, named after Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, a Spanish conquistador credited with "discovering" the Pacific Ocean, and since appropriated as a national icon. Each balboa is worth a U.S. dollar, the official currency in Panama. The coins were minted once, in 2011, when forty million were put into circulation without retiring the equivalent number of dollars. They were nicknamed "martinellis" after Ricardo Martinelli, then ruling president, infamous for his corrupt, imperious style. After an initial fascination with their novelty, the populace soon deemed them a currency of lesser value.