The Korea Times
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. The title of the exhibition references a 1936 tourism poster produced by
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