Born in London, England in 1969, artist Naeem Mohaiemen works in Dhaka, Bangladesh and New York, USA. He is a John Simon Guggenheim fellow (film) and a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Campaign
Flood a gallery, embalm an animal, smash an object—critics hail such gestures as having the power to “shape worlds.” But when artists demand fair conditions for workers building western museums in Abu Dhabi—as the Gulf Labor Coalition has done—this work becomes illegible to the same museum.