Nous vaincrons
Nous vaincrons
By Jameel Shammout
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▸ Features: Limited Edition Handmade▸ Materials: Cardstock
▸ Art technique: Illustration Silk Screen Printing Hand-Printing
▸ Dimensions (cm): 29.7 x 42.0 x 0.1
▸ Net Weight (kg): 0.04
The Nous Vaincrons screen print was based on a poster designed by the late Ismail Shammout, a prominent Palestinian artist who is regarded as a pioneer of contemporary Palestinian art, that he illustrated for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in 1970. Ismail Shammout started painting oils of natural scenery and portraiture before the Nakba of 1948. Still, as his town Al-Lyd fell to the Zionist forces he and his family fled to the village of Nilin, near Ramallah, an event we now know as the March of Death. The family continued to move until it settled in the tents that eventually formed the Khan Yunis refugee camp, where he pushed to continue his artistic career and was able to exhibit his paintings in a room in the Khan Yunis government school in 1950.
JamPam knows Ismail Shammout as his grandfather’s brother, and this piece was made as a tribute to his legacy and Palestine. Exhibiting the name of every city of Palestine written in Arabic, a Palestinian freedom fighter, and the Arabic and French translation of “We will be victorious” it is a poster highlighting the fight and struggle of the Palestinian people.
Production year: 2024.
According to the Urban Canvas Exhibition's curator, Dr. Pamela Chrabieh, "This piece not only revisits the legacy of Ismail Shammout but also bridges past and present struggles. By integrating Shammout's iconic imagery with the statement "We will be victorious," the artwork amplifies the voices of resistance that have echoed through generations. The context of the Urban Canvas exhibition reinforces the enduring fight for justice, serving as a reminder of how urban spaces can become canvases for resistance and resilience, particularly in the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation".
About Jameel Shammout
Jameel Shammout aka JamPam is a street artist focusing on topics that reflect his upbringing as a Palestinian in the diaspora. Born in Amman in 2001 to a family without roots in any one location, Jam moved through 8 countries and 3 continents before the age of 20. This life meant that one of the few common links between all the cultures he had to adapt to was art—the only internationally shared language.
While it’s common for artists to utilize street art, murals, and graffiti to build hope and resilience within communities, JamPam took a different approach. Surrounded by foreign societies that didn’t understand the effects of long-term occupation of a homeland or what it means for the population in and outside of the country, he used street art to offer those communities a new perspective.
“I wanted people to understand that war and occupation mean more than just numbers and statistics. I wanted people to relate to, if even just so slightly, what the Middle East has been through, and continues to go through. This pushed me to move away from the traditional forms of raising awareness and instead focus on how I can guide someone’s mind into my own. How can I find the connections between what expresses my emotions and what expresses yours? Finding that link between populations is what ultimately creates empathy and understanding between them.”