POSTERS OF LIBERATION 

RETURNING HOME

Posters of Liberation an exhibition of revolutionary posters from the Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA). Often archived in poor quality, these posters are digitally restored, color corrected, and printed at scale. According to the theme, ten posters are selected for their significance as functional tools in the Palestinian struggle for liberation by a people living under occupation. These are not works of art to be separated from their political history. Each of these posters is a call to action—they are made to be seen, to foster popular resistance and animate a future towards liberation and return.

The theme Returning Home is a collection of posters that affirm the Palestinian right of return as an central feature of liberation. In these images, Palestinian artists render “return” in a kaleidoscope of colonial history—a past of forced displacement, a present under occupation, and a future towards liberation. Motifs of maps, roads, dates and distant cities evoke this chronology of displacement, defining history in relation/resistance to the advances of the Zionist occupier. Representations of the land play a dual purpose by depicting the historical right to occupied land while also imagining futures of return. Made to be seen and distributed broadly, these posters are a call to action—inciting the present towards a decolonized future.