GAZA LOVE, 2014 - Ongoing
Three color screen print on 6ply poster board, 22.25" x 22", signed and dated, open edition.
My “GAZA Love” screen print was more influenced by General Idea’s AIDS piece and Rage Against The Machine’s “Renegades” album cover than Robert Indiana. However I realize neither transgression would have been possible without Indiana’s iconic LOVE.
Love is Resistance is a powerful collection of 77 commissioned posters from artists, musicians, writers, designers, poets, filmmakers, students, actors, digital creators and voices from across the world standing in solidarity with Palestine. Each poster can be pulled out, framed and hung, taken to peaceful protests or kept together as an archive. Order Book: www.loveisresistance.art
Print Runs:
Al-Aqsa Flood, 2023 - ongoing
Nakba 74 Action, 2022
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Strike MoMA, 2021
Week 7: Call to Action
Gaza In Our Hearts, 2014
City Wide, NYC
City Hall Action, 2014
GAZA Love Mural, 2015
Al Walaja, West Bank, Palestine
Goen makes use of the iconographic “LOVE” lettering first rendered in a 1970 sculpture by Robert Indiana and later featured on the first stamp on the theme of love to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service, in 1973.
Goen’s transformation of the word “LOVE” into “GAZA” is provocative yet disarming, associating love with a geographical location that Americans have neglected, ignored, misunderstood, and defamed. The familiar, joyful lettering, recast in a bold palette (the Palestinian colors of red, black, white, and green), compels a reconsideration of “Gaza.” For those already in solidarity with Palestine, it affirms the affection. The genius of this poster is that the image can be interpreted from yards away. This made it extremely popular with demonstrators in the summer of 2014.
- Catherine Baker, Mondoweiss