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)
“I imagine most participants view the national pavilion structure critically. It becomes bitterly clear that not all do, however, when countries breaching international law continue to participate for soft power”