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Nástio Mosquito presents project at Tate Modern on Friday

Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito presents, on Friday, at the Tate Modern in London, the project "No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Trabalho.De.Preto", which "explores the political potential of dreams and points of view".

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According to information available on the official Tate Modern website, Nástio Mosquito's project, "which takes a different form each time it is presented", will be shown at 7pm in the Starr Cinema room.

"No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Work.De.Preto", the most recent project of the multi-disciplinary artist, 'performer' and Angolan musician, "explores the political potential of dreams and points of view". "It questions 'who or what has power over us?' and 'who or what is really important to us'," reads the site.

For the Tate Modern, Nástio Mosquito has programmed "a night that unfolds in three distinct acts". "Using voice, sound, video and performance, it offers audiences the opportunity to discover the artist's key impulses and a multimedia approach in unexpected ways," explains the institution.

In Lisbon, at Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística, it is possible to visit until Saturday the "No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Trabalho.De.Preto" in the expanded exhibition format.

The title appears as a provocation and intends to confront the public "with the negative connotations of the expression 'work of black' - racist, slave, depreciative ethnic stereotype, among others -, and, at the same time, acts as [a] unification factor".

Because, as Nástio Mosquito exposes, the challenge is "to speak with all blond blacks, dark blacks, acromatic blacks, blacks from social networks, blacks with supposed representativity, blacks who every day wake up with the inner will to be problem-solvers...".

The project continues the "No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Us", the universe of work that the artist premiered in May of last year, with a series of live performances, which was presented in the official opening program of the 58th Venice Art Biennial, at that time with the derivation "No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Our.Performance".

Born in 1981 in Huambo, Nástio Mosquito left Angola at a young age to study in Coimbra, and then headed to Lisbon, where he developed his musical work for two years at the Hot Club. As an adult he moved to London, where he studied media production and then returned to his home country.

His work has been through video, photography, installations, word, performance and music, with albums edited as "Why Do You Care" (2012) and "Se Eu Fosse Angolano" (2013).

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