On Feb. 22, the Tolerance Poster Show—which since 2017 has appeared 81 times in 40 countries—opened its second run in Lahore, Pakistan, at Beaconhouse. Beaconhouse is Pakistan’s first nonprofit liberal arts university.
The Tolerance Poster Show allows any institution to select the amount of work they have the capacity to showcase, and then digitally print and mount those pieces. This iteration of the exhibition, curated by Professor Aarish Sardar, was displayed at the SLASS Lawn on the university grounds and was seen by students, faculty and members of the public.
To date, most of the exhibitions have been mounted outside the United States. Some domestic institutions have signed up for the show, but have since decided to cancel it for unspecified reasons. It seems, in part, that tolerance has become politicized at a time when intolerance has risen throughout the world. The Tolerance Project starts a conversation about inclusion, which can only begin with a foundation of tolerance. “The show utilizes the unique power of design to remind us what we all have in common,” says organizer Mirko Ilic.
The photos below are from the current exhibition in Lahore.
