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Naeem Mohaiemen
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Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, photography, and installations to research the idea of socialism, incomplete decolonization, shifting borders, and unreliable memory. Despite underscoring a historic left tendency toward misrecognition of allies, a hope for a future transnational left as the only possible alternative to current cages of race and religion is a basis for the work. He was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, 2018 Turner Prize finalist, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Herb Alpert Award. His films have been programmed at film festivals internationally. He is the author of “Midnight’s Third Child” (Nokta, forthcoming) and “Prisoners of Shothik Itihash” (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), as well as co-editor of several other volumes. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions and biennales around the world and is housed in the permanent collections of Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London, among others. He has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University.
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Abu Ammar is Coming
Afsan’s Long Day (The Young Man Was, Part 2)
Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3)
United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part I)
Tripoli Cancelled
Two Meetings and a Funeral
Rankin Street, 1953
Those Who Do Not Drown
Through a Mirror, Darkly
A Missing Can of Film
Grace