Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations, and essays to research former utopias and incomplete decolonizations framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. Despite underscoring a leftist tendency toward misrecognition of allies, a hope for a future international left as the only possible alternative to current polarities of race and religion is a basis for the work. He is the author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Drishtipat, 2010), co-editor of System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (Sylvana, 2007) and is currently co-editing (w/ Eszter Szakacs) Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit/ Van Abbe/ Salt/ Tricontinential, 2019). His essays related to the turbulent history of the former East Pakistan (1947-1971) and current Bangladesh (post-1971)  include "Simulation at Wars’ End: A Documentary in the Field of Evidence Quest,” (Bioscope), “Muhammad Ali’s Bangladesh Passport” (New Inquiry), “The Ginger Merchant of History: Standing in the Shadow of Giants” (Witte de With), “Time of the Writing, Hour of the Reading,” (Economic & Political Weekly, India), and “Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971” (Economic & Political Weekly). His films have recently been exhibited at SALT Beyoglu (Istanbul, 2019), Mahmoud Darwish Museum (Ramallah, 2018), Tate Britain (London, 2018), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2017), Abdur Razzaq Foundation (Dhaka, 2017), and documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel, 2017). He is a member of the ICA Independent Film Council (London).