Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen uses essays, films, and installations to explore the revolutionary left as tragic utopia and states of exception between borders, within South Asia's postcolonial markers (1947 & 1971).

Opinion

Standing in the Shadow of No Towers

The struggle for immigrant rights and lives after 9/11 defined a generation of South Asian art and activism, even if it felt at times like we were trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.

Art

The Whitney Biennial Reminds Us America Is Not Post-Race

A slow reading of Ajay Kurian’s work is influenced by a desire to view, parse, and converse with more work by artists of color, and is one of many strategies needed to challenge a dominant, incomplete idea of “American” art.