We Out here, 2025
Nov 24, 2025 – Dec 24, 2025
We Are Out Here – is an ongoing series of public love declaration by Metro54 to street guerrilla poster culture that has produced (in the past decades) a particularly complex design aesthetics, typology, and vernacular across counter cultures. We first took to the streets in September 2020, with a series of posters occupying various intersections and squares in Amsterdam.
We’ve since had four successful editions, each inviting four up-and-coming designers to craft a series of posters in response to a given theme.
This edition, titled People Over Property, serves as an artistic response to the pressing issues surrounding the constellation of ongoing crises and genocides taking place in the Global South and the echoes they carry across their borders.This means that this edition steadfast solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Sudan, and Congo in their struggles for liberation, transformative justice, and survival. We acknowledge the daily struggles of the Diasporas in Europe, and the quiet moments of resistance and solidarity whispered in our communities. We reject hierarchies of suffering.
From the student and grassroots movements in the Netherlands calling for disclosure, boycott, and divestment, to communities resisting displacement, violence, and extraction across the globe, our struggles are interlinked. All of our lives are geopolitical. This edition attempts to refuse erasure, state violence, Islamophobia, and racial profiling. It insists on abundance and interdependence: that together, we have enough, and that the horizon of liberation is possible if we recognize our shared struggles.
The creations from "We Are Out Here" will this time come from Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz, Parsa Adibi, Sherine Salla, and Mustafa Saeed. The works will be displayed for a month in the streets of Amsterdam from 24 November 2025.
Parsa Adibi (IR)
Based in Amsterdam, he explores the body as an extension of his practice. Through processes of archiving, tracing, looping, digging, and repetition, he seeks to re-empower the body treating it as the carrier of memory, resistance, and transformation. His work moves fluidly across mediums through which he exposes hidden realities, cultural dogmas, cliché, abstraction, and theory.
Sherine Salla (EG)
Sherine Salla is a Cairo-born graphic designer and educator who works across print and publishing, with an interest in subjective geographies, public space, and pedagogical frameworks.
How does one respond to the multiple genocides happening in close geographical, cultural and spiritual proximity to their being? How does one bear witness to the daily transgressions on people’s dignities all over this world? At a certain moment, there is not much else left to say, and my need to reach out to a higher power persists.
Mustafa Saeed (SO)
Mustafa Saeed is a Somali-born, Hargeisa based artist whose multidisciplinary work spans photography, graphics, and sound. His art blends poetic symbolism with socio-political critique, focusing on themes of war, conflict, and the environment. Mustafa founded Fankeenna, a youth-led art space in Hargeisa, and is a contributor to Everyday Africa.
Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz (SU)
Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz is a Sudanese artist and curator based in Berlin. His process is intuitive and responsive to surroundings, allowing chance to guide choices. He synthesises elements into larger bodies of work with a slow, close examination of themes. His photography studies cities, relationality, and how people organise, distribute, and experience physical and psychic space.
“I had a guiding question in mind when examining the theme, which I have previously pondered on: do we own land, or does land own us. We come from earth and return to it. The works test how images and words shape duty to people over profit, minerals, and territory.” Muhammad