A rubber raft filled with passive world leaders, their arms locked in unity. This
imageÑan uncredited mash-up circulated online in April 2015Ñcombines a photo op of western heads of state at the Paris Charlie Hebdo march with a more recent tragedy: the deaths of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean. ItÕs an apt metaphor, writes Natascha Sadr Haghighian, for an
EU refugee policy thatÕs hopelessly adrift.
This pamphlet is published by the Walker Art Center as part of its online Artist Op-Eds series, an ongoing project inviting artists in all disciplines to respond through writing to events in the news. See more at wac.mn/artist-opeds