Join artist Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Sarah Le Quang Sang and Benjamin Tran alongside Mohaiemen’s exhibition, THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, on show at John Hansard Gallery.
More information about THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY here.
Naeem Mohaiemen (b. 1969) was born in London, UK, grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and currently lives and works in New York, USA. He combines films, photography, drawings, and essays to explore forms of utopia-dystopia within families, borders, architecture, and uprisings – beginning in South Asia and then radiating outward to transnational collisions in the Islamicate world after 1945. Mohaiemen’s work is held in major international collections including British Museum and Tate Modern (London), Museum of Modern Art (New York), MACBA (Barcelona), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Kiran Nadar Museum (Delhi), National Gallery of Singapore, Art Institute of Chicago, Colby Museum of Art, and Sharjah Art Foundation. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2018. Mohaiemen is co-editor with Eszter Szakacs of Solidarity Must Be Defended (Budapest, 2023) and with Lorenzo Fusi of System Error: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Siena, 2007). He is the author of Bengal Photography’s Reality Quest (Dhaka, 2025), Baksho Rohoshyo (Umea, 2024), Midnight’s Third Child (Dhaka, 2023) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Basel, 2014). He is Chair of the Visual Arts Department, School of Arts, Columbia University.
Sarah Le Quang Sang is the Founder and Director of SLQS Gallery, where she leads a programme dedicated to supporting diverse, intergenerational women and queer artists. Her career is shaped by a personal journey marked by resilience, reinvention, and a deep commitment to creating platforms that reflect the multiplicity of contemporary artistic experience.
Benjamin Tran is a researcher specialising in the Vietnam War and its aftermath. His work focuses on South Vietnamese narratives of the war, exploring perspectives that have often been overlooked within dominant Western accounts. His research seeks to broaden understandings of the conflict by highlighting the voices, experiences, and memories that shaped South Vietnamese society during the war and how this experience shapes the diaspora today.