Fine Arts
Final Project
Marah Ghanaiem
Free Signage
Reflects how political power reshaped the visual identity of Palestinian cities along the Green Line. In Baqa al-Gharbiyye, the rise of Hebrewonly signs in the 1990s gradually pushed Arabic out of public view, under the illusion of “free signage.” Drawing on a personal archive of street signs and my father’s workshop, I revisit these changes and ask: Who controls what we see in our city and in whose language do we belong?