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)
“For me, books are open. The beginning of a book is not its first sentence, and the end is not its last. Books are expansive, almost like voracious entities”
Reflecting on Archie Moore’s presentation ‘kith and kin’ for the Australia Pavilion, the talks programme will explore two of the exhibition’s central themes
'I must reject the nomination given to me by your institution, but the invitation to join the side of history that bends towards justice remains always open.'
