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 exhibition demonstrates how persistently animals have populated the artist’s imagination as proxies through which to explore human emotions, desires, fears and forms of intimacy
