Naeem Mohayemen and Eric Baudelaire Exhibition
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- Name of the organization or individual
- Assassa Executive Committee
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year
FY31 (2019) 1st term Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
Eric Baudelaire and Naeem Mohayemen share many common interests, such as the exceptional anarchy in contemporary politics, the history of political utopia and its repercussions, the summoning of images recalled from past events and memories, and the connection between documentary images and emotion = memory. This project invited two artists to the curation space "Asakusa" (Asakusa, Taito-ku) and held their first exhibition together. On the first day (2/9), film director Masao Adachi and 3 other guest speakers were invited (1 of them participated via Skype), and 3.5 hours of artist talks were held. In this exhibition, the relationship between Japan's postwar leftist movement and the international community, as well as stories that have not been told due to the confusion of history drawn from a Western-centered perspective, were reread, and both artists of the time and the next generation exchanged opinions and joined the audience.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Sunday, February 9, 2020 to Sunday, March 8
- Venues
- Asakusa (Taito-ku, Tokyo)
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Profile
[Eric Baudelaire]
Born 1973 in Salt City, USA. While studying political science at Brown University in the United States, his fieldwork in the Caucasus region in 2000 inspired him to pursue expression using photographs, and he began to pursue a path in visual art. His stay in Kyoto in 2008 was a major turning point and he shifted to visual expression. Now based in Paris, Baudelaire is interested in the relationship between images and events, between past events and their documentation, and between documentary and fiction. Using historical records as a guide, Baudelaire uses meticulous research to uncover undocumented facts from an orthopolitical perspective.
Naeem Mohaiemen
Born 1969 in London. A dual British-Bangladeshi citizen, Mohyemen grew up in Dhaka and moved to the United States with his family in 1989, where he earned a degree in economics and then joined the New York-based editorial collective "SAMAR" to begin his career as an artist. He is currently a doctoral student in anthropology at Columbia University and works mainly in New York and Dhaka. Mohayemen has been presenting his research on the current legacy of decolonization, the memory of the political utopia of leftist thought, or its revision, erasure, and radical leftist thought since the Second World War, not in the form of papers but in the form of films and installations. Based on his own experience of emigration, it is clear from his work that he tries to raise questions about immigration and refugee issues on a global scale and the identity of former colonies in postcolonialism from a dimension that transcends the existing categories of national borders, race, and religion.