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)
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