Louvre Abu Dhabi, January 15, 2019
Touring the Roads of Arabia provided grounds for class discussion of both the exhibition’s content and curation. The class discussed how presentation matters, how scripts are followed and discourses carried, and how geopolitical power features in the construction of “truths.” Emerging from an exhibit that brings the viewer from “prehistory” to “modern day,” we strove to re-consider the meaning of the tradition-to-modernity script.