Creative Capital

Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen works in Dhaka and New York, using essays, photography and film to explore histories of failed utopias. His work has shown at the 2006 Whitney Biennial (as part of Visible Collective), Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Experimenter Kolkata, New Museum, Frieze Art Fair, Sharjah Biennial and MUAC Mexico City. Naeem is editor of the anthology Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism. His essays include “Islamic Roots of HipHop” (Sound Unbound, MIT Press, DJ Spooky ed.), “AdMan Blues” (Indian Highway, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones cur.) and “Silver Porsche Illusion” (Men of Global South, Zed). Project themes have been described as “gently question the efficacy of activism” (Brian Boucher, Art in America), “ultimately more illuminating than Jacques Rancière’s microscopic examinations of the utopian kernels” (Ben Davis, ArtNet) and “not yet disillusioned fully with the capacity of human society” (Vijay Prashad, Take on Art). The work has been featured in Granta (“Pakistan Issue”), Modern Painters (“Art & War”) and Springerin.