Prateek Raja and his wife Priyanka run the gallery. He has been quoted as sayingA: “Frieze is important. It’s exploratory (in nature), not necessarily market-driven. To be invited to Frieze is a pleasant surprise.” An artist note on Frieze website states:
"Having worked both on his own and as part of Visible, a collective of artists and activists he co-founded, Naeem Mohaiemen has probed post-liberation histories within his native Bangladesh as well as broader misconceptions of our polarized, panic-prone world. Consider Live True Life or Die Trying (2009), an installation of texts and photographs of two demonstrations occurring simultaneously in Dhaka: the ‘Islamist’ and the ‘Leftist’. The work reflects on the editing process and the impact it can have on the meaning of images."Naeem Mohaiemen’s work is going to be on display at the specially curated section ‘Frame’, devoted to galleries less than six years old. It represents younger, emerging artists and promotes more experimental works. Incidentally, Experimenter is the lone gallery from India to feature at Frieze this year. The gallery has a research-based approach in its program, choice of artist, and also placement of work.
Most shows at the gallery have had political undertone by artists like Mehreen Murtaza and Bani Abidi. Even Naeem Mohaiemen’s choice of subject is political though he deals with it in a rather poetic and evocative manner. According to the artist, he works through research, excavating Bangladesh’s history of post-liberation as a way of viewing Asian epochs, more so, the history of failure. This is the latest in a series over multiple platforms- long-form essay, photography, installation and video.
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