The following catalogue has been put together to accompany the exhibition Echoes of 1973: Revisiting the Memories of Latin America, organised by UoL students from King’s College London, London School of Economics, and Queen Mary University London. The catalogue documents the heart of this project – an exhaustive set of interpretive and analytical texts that bring the exhibited posters to life, authored by the participating students.

The exhibition takes you through a compelling set of posters, pamphlets and publications that capture the spirit of resistance, social change, and political movements in Latin America. The catalogue uncovers the history of these visual materials, and places them in the broader context of the geopolitical, social and economic shifts that were occurring in the continent, as well as the world at large, in the 1970s.

This catalogue also introduces you to the faces behind this project: the students who selected, analysed and exhibited these posters, the teams who organised events to project the spirit of this project, and the faculty advisors who guided and facilitated this process. Finally, this catalogue is a continuation of the tradition set by the students in Latin America fifty odd years ago – that of putting to paper what must be remembered, even when the tides of time and power resist its commemor.

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