temporary intervention - print on advertising column, 2025
Düsseldorf
Three weeks after the Hamas attacks of Oct 7th 2023 , the subsequent carpet bombing andbeginning of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, author and journalist Omar El Akkad wrote the following on Twitter:
“One day, when it’s safe,
when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is,
when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable,
everyone will have always been against this.”
In February 2025 , he published his memoir and manifesto One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, winning the US National Book Award . BIST DU IMMER NOCH NICHT IMMER SCHON DAGEGEN GEWESEN (transl. “HAVE YOU STILL NOT ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS”) has been displayed at two advertising locations in Düsseldorf from 22.08. to 01.09. 2025.
This design was created within the framework of the seminar
Public Art VIII - Kunst Stadt Werbung
A project by Rozbeh Asmani (CDFI) and Zil Lilas (KHM)
Photos: Davi Ertl, 2025
© courtesy of the artists, university Greifswald and academy of media arts cologne