ArtReview’s September 2017 issue features the work of Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito. Musician, performance artist, stand-up comedian – Mosquito invents multiple fictional personas to riff on global politics, the delusions of self-help, postcolonial power relations and the artworld. In Building Skyscrapers,Mosquito finds himself the tricky situation of doing a promo for a distracted and bored art journalist. It does not go well… (contains some strong language)
Featuring Raven Chacon, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Nolan Oswald Dennis; columns on trans rights and protests in Poland; exhibition and book reviews; and more
The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap
