Materials of Solidarity

In the age of digital circulation, Palestinian protest images have been subject to censorship. The medium of print has returned to combat repression, with the increased production of posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets circulated at demonstrations, community gatherings, and university encampments. Materials of Solidarity echoes the movement’s insistence: “the more they try to silence us, the louder we will be.” The collectively assembled postcards, paired with documentation of the intimate reflections of anonymous contributors, are a palimpsest of our community and its protest of the ongoing, mediatized genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Images are progenitors of another possible world. Materials of Solidarity is a multivocal response to the age-old question of the relationship between graphic production and social transformation. The central proposition is that images alone are not enough: they need actions to realize their political potential. The exhibition accumulates images born of the history and reality of Palestinian struggle, and their recombinant mutation across spaces, generations and possibilities of solidarity and resistance. It offers reproductions of postcards as materials of solidarity that must proliferate into the world. From our campus and workplace, to streets and open spaces, let our images and words multiply, distributing the collective energy of protest against genocide and reverberating the refusal of our collective complicity.

Selections from Materials of Solidarity will be on view in an exhibition entitled In That Same Hour at Darat Al Funun (Amman, Jordan) from November 18, 2025-May 31, 2026.