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)
Grotesquerie has long been the language of rebellion. On our screens and in the contemporary art gallery, an era of ugly, morbidly playful satire is back
The artist’s first institutional presentation outside of Asia, at New York’s Swiss Institute, tells a story of industry and postcolonial culture in spare parts
