Posters produced in or for Palestine showing its political history are on display at "Visit Palestine: Seoul Edition" at the exhibition space Faces in Seoul, Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Lee Hae-rin
Posters that once traveled quietly between activists, student groups and solidarity networks are now on the walls of a small gallery in Seoul, inviting visitors to a place many may never see in person: Palestine.
“Visit Palestine: Seoul Edition,” the local edition of the traveling Visit Palestine Poster Project, is on view at Faces, an exhibition space in Yeonnam-dong, through May 4, after an earlier run at CORD in central Seoul from April 1-18.
The show presents 16 posters produced in or for Palestine over the past six decades, selected for how they illuminate its political history while drawing visual connections through symbols and typography in historically resonant imagery.
The project began in Tokyo in June 2021, when Indonesian-born cafe owner Andhika Faisal came across a collection of Palestinian solidarity posters in a secondhand shop. The exhibition first opened in May 2022 and has since toured to more than 20 venues in 15 Japanese cities before traveling to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and now Korea.
"Visit Palestine: Seoul Edition" at the exhibition space Faces in Seoul / Captured from Korean Cultural Alliance for Palestine's Instagram account
The title of the exhibition references a 1936 tourism poster produced by Zionist institutions, which used the slogan “Visit Palestine” to promote Jewish travel and immigration to the territory. Ironically, the slogan has since become a symbol of enduring presence and resistance.
The images encapsulate aspirations for freedom, dignity and independence and have played a key role in communicating the Palestinian struggle to distant audiences.
Similarly, in Korea, posters have long been part of the visual language of resistance, from the 1980s' grassroots pro-democracy movement prints to recent placards calling for the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. During Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, Korean democracy posters have appeared alongside graphics in solidarity with Palestine, creating what organizers describe as a “shared wall” of struggles.
Posters produced in or for Palestine showing the territory's political history are on display at "Visit Palestine: Seoul Edition" at the exhibition space Faces in Seoul, Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Lee Hae-rin
Source: Korea Times News
