Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon's Civil War (a project by Zeina Maasri)
Antrepo No.3

Çatışma Belirtileri:
Lübnan İç Savaşı'ndan Siyasi Afişler
(1975-1990)
[Bir Zeina Maasri projesi]
Signs of Conflict:
Political Posters of Lebanon's Civil War
(1975-1990)
[a project by Zeina Maasri]
1973, Beyrut. Beyrut'ta yaşıyor.
Born in 1973, Beirut. Lives in Beirut.

Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon's Civil War traces the deployment of political discourse in the visual culture that was characteristic of Lebanon's wartime conflicts. From 1975 to 1990, different factions, political parties and movements in Lebanon's civil conflict flooded the streets with posters to mobilise their constituencies and create public sympathy for their cause. Zeina Maasri, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, collected and sorted over 200 visual documents with the idea that their distinct aesthetics reveal the narratives of prevailing political conflicts, whilst providing insights into modern Arab visual culture. This project also examines how local socioeconomic and sectarian struggles characterise political discourses and their iconography.
Graphic Chronologies (2009), an installation which provides visual chronologies of the war from 1975 to 1990, is one section of a more comprehensive exhibition, initially produced by Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2008), and developed into a published study entitled Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War (2009) by Zeina Maasri. The project provides a multi-layered chronology of the conflict showing political posters as sites of a complex symbolic struggle.