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)
The erratic management of art history in the Met’s latest exhibition is harmless compared to its quasi-taxonomic classification of humans, writes Jenny Wu
“We dedicate the pavilion to our ancestors who, despite the brutal presence of Russia, managed to preserve our Latvian identity, language and culture, as well as the possibility to dream about the future.”
