Naeem Mohaiemen's "The Young Man Was (Part 1: United Red Army)" featured in the Images Festival in Toronto, Canada

Apr 14 - May 26 2012

A Space Gallery
W, Toronto,

Since 2006, Naeem Mohaiemen has been making works related to the history of the ultra-left in the 1970s.  Mohaiemen’s project consists of essays, photography, and films. In The Young Man Was (Part 1: United Red Army), Mohaiemen focuses on the hijacking of Japan Airlines flight 472 by the Japanese Red Army. En route from Bombay, the flight was redirected to Dhaka, Bangladesh where it remained for six days before the Japanese government ceded to the JRA’s demands. Mohaiemen’s film is based on audio transcripts of the negotiations between the Dhaka airport control tower and the lead hijacker, which the viewer experiences as barely decipherable voices accompanied by a black screen. Interspersed between the audio recordings are archival television images from Japan and Bangladesh, as well as Mohaiemen’s own reflections on the JRA, which frame events from an autobiographical perspective. For Images, Mohaiemen is also creating a timeline installation that connects tendency, ideology, event, and accident.


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