Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, photography and essays to explore forms of utopia-dystopia within families, borders, architecture and uprisings, beginning from South Asia and then radiating outward to transnational collisions of the post-1945 Islamicate world. He is co-editor of Solidarity Must Be Defended (Tranzit, 2023) as well as author of Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta/ULAB, 2023) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014). Several conversations around ‘nonalignment’ as a concept container in contemporary art pivoted after the premiere of his film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017) at documenta 14, which was a finalist for Britain’s Turner Prize (2018). The artist’s projects are in the collections of the Sharjah Art Foundation; MoMA, New York; the Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; the Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi; the National Gallery of Singapore; Tate Modern, London; MACBA, Barcelona; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Mohaiemen is Head of the Photography Concentration at the School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York.