11 July 2017

Images of Defiance Virtual Exhibition goes live!

THERE SHALL BE HOUSES SECURITY AND COMFORT FOR ALL: ABOLISH GROUP AREAS THERE SHALL BE HOUSES SECURITY AND COMFORT FOR ALL: ABOLISH GROUP AREAS. AL2446_0503; This poster is silkscreened black, red and yellow, produced by GAYCO at the CAP, Cape Town. This poster was produced by a youth congress, who were based in a white area. This congress opposed the Group Areas Act and popularised the Freedom Charter's call for houses for all.

 

Images of Defiance: posters of the struggle Virtual Exhibition (link)

This Virtual Exhibition is based on the SAHA Poster Collection (AL2446) and the Images of Defiance publication. The exibition allows for an immersion in one of the more visual and creative aspects of the struggle. The SAHA poster collection consists of over 4000 unique posters dating mostly from the 1980s-1990s.

SAHA has curated many exhibitions using the poster collection but this is the first one where the Posters themselves are the feature of the collection. 

Some of the other Virtual Exhibitions that SAHA has curated which feature the posters include:  End Conscription Campaign (ECC); the United Democratic Front (UDF); Women in the struggle; Youth in the struggle; Labour; Non-Racialism; Shifty Records and The Bill of Rights.