Shake your rights
A 60 year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

A collaboration with Koen Evers and Thom Bronneberg.

Assignment - Every human being is concerned by all human rights and their consequences. They refer to tangible real-life situations and reflect the complexity of human existence everywhere and in many ways. For the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ART for The World Europa and NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti - Milano, under the patronage of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and of the Italian Ministry of University and Research have decided to promote an international poster competition.

We made a serie of 3 posters that tell the same story. In the line pattern there is a text hidden that you can only read clear from a distance. It says 'If you can't be safe', 'If you can't believe', en 'if you can't speak up'. On the right bottom it says in small 'Ever though about that'. We want to say with this that freedom of speech, feeling safe, and freedom of religion is absolutely normal for us in the west, but in many other countries this isn't the case. We call this in dutch a 'ver-van-je-bed-show'. You read about the terrible things happening in countries far far away, just like the readability of the poster. And than you get attracted to come closer en you read in small 'ever thought about that'. In other words you see it on television, you read it in the newspaper, but have you really thought of it? Feel blessed that you live in a free country en stand up for the people who still don't have these rights.