Posters for Gaza: An artistic call for humanity

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A powerful creator rally against injustice…

In a stirring show of solidarity, Zawyeh Gallery successful Alserkal Avenue has unveiled its latest group exhibition, Posters for Gaza. This compelling showcase features nan useful of 26 talented Palestinian and Arab artists, each contributing their unsocial sound to shed ray connected nan ongoing atrocities successful nan Gaza Strip.

The bosom of nan accumulation thumps pinch an impassioned telephone for a cease-fire and nan nickname of nan basal authorities of Palestinians to unrecorded freely. What makes this accumulation peculiarly poignant is that 4 of nan participating artists hail from Gaza, lending an moreover much individual and heartfelt magnitude to their creations.

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Uniformly sized and designed successful a simplified manner, nan posters bespeak characteristic successful position of style, materials, and nan underlying narratives. Steering distant from nan integer norm, participating artists poured their effort into producing those posters, utilising a assortment of materials, including acrylics, inks, charcoal, collage, and mixed media.

Tapping into nan posters’ subjects, nan themes vary, yet each nan artists telephone for humanity to prevail. Themes that reside quality authorities violations successful Gaza, are evident successful nan useful All Rights Not Reserved by Hosni Radwan and We Are Doing Fine successful Gaza… What About You? by Khaled El Haber. Gazan creator Mohammed Joha encapsulates worry and worries towards his family surviving successful Gaza successful his poster Sleepless, and nan dense weight of condolences and melancholy besides manifests successful Gazan creator Hazem Harb’s poster. Meanwhile, Hassan Manasrah and Vera Tamari telephone for nan state of Palestine, while artists, Bashar Alhroub, Wadei Khaled and Iraqi creator Reda Alyasari, attraction connected nan warmth of family and motherhood.

A motion to history, nan accumulation revives a longstanding contented successful Palestinian activism. Political posters, a potent shape of expression, were prolifically produced during nan ‘70s and ‘80s by nan Palestinian Liberation Organisation, drafting contributions from Palestinian, Arab, and world artists. These ocular narratives played a pivotal domiciled successful garnering world support for nan justness of nan Palestinian cause, championing values of freedom, dignity, resilience, and nan unyielding pursuit of independence.

Original posters are for waste from Dhs3,000. Poster copies are disposable to acquisition online for Dhs300 pinch proceeds providing much-needed aesculapian assistance to affected children successful Gaza done nan Palestinian Red Crescent.

Posters and their artists:

1. Reda Alyasari – Embrace
2. Bashar Alhroub – Mariam
3. Hosni Radwan – All Rights Not Reserved – Gaza
4. Hazem Harb – They are now stealing your skin
5. Hassan Manasrah – Palestinian Woman
6. Vera Tamari – Gaza, From nan rubble soars life
7. Wadei Khaled – We Palestine
8. Yazan Abu Salameh – Not Numbers
9. Mohammed Joha – Sleepless
10. Issam Al-Haj Ibrahim – The Orange Tree
11. Khaled El Haber – We are doing good successful Gaza…what astir you?!