Palestine Will be Free: Vitrine

Palestine Will Be Free is an evolving project by Dark Opacities Lab that began as a workshop at the AHGSA conference in February 2024 at Concordia University, transformed into a zine, published with B&D Press in August 2024, and was on display in the vitrine space of the Department of Art History.

For this project, Dark Opacities Lab went through the vast and rich resource of The Palestine Poster Project, an archive of nearly 20,000 posters in relation to Palestine, composed by nearly 4,000 different artists, and compiled by Dan Walsh. This archive is an invaluable resource in documenting the scale of Palestinian resistance and the place of aesthetics and design. In thinking through the political vernacular of these posters, we are necessarily asked to reckon with the place of visuality and visual culture in the realm of the political. Inspired by The Palestine Poster Project Archives, Dark Opacities Lab asked students and community members to create and contribute postcard-sized art in relation to and in solidarity with Palestinian anti-colonial resistance.