Naeem Mohaiemen, a filmmaker and writer of Bangladeshi extraction, was born in London in 1969, graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, and is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at Columbia…
Artworks travel heavy, and the baggage that accompanies them includes ideas about what they mean and information about the contexts in which they were produced and first interpreted.
“Now, every time I photograph a protest rally, there are bits I’m leaving out.” So begins a catalogue statement by Bangladeshi writer and artist Naeem Mohaiemen (b. 1969). The admission sets the tone…