Postcard From Marrakech: A Conflicted Photo Festival

The Images Affranchies exhibition – curated by former director of the Arab World Institute, Brahim Alaoui – collects work completed by Arab artists between the years 2006-2010. The demonstrations and revolts in the Arab world have given a new context and relevance to the collection, but one has apprehensions that a visual art exhibition featuring work done in a “protest aesthetic,” funded in part by the government of France, will have pat politics and punch-pulling products.