ART CHAT: Santiago Mostyn + Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole + Anna Tellgren
Santiago Mostyn (b. 1981, San Francisco) lives and works in Stockholm but has strong ties to Zimbabwe and Trinidad & Tobago where he grew up. His practice foregrounds narrative entanglements in pursuit of new understandings of place, both in a cultural and psychic sense. Mostyn has long been interested in the interplay of music, narrative and the embodied self, with works manifesting as films, exhibitions and curatorial projects. His work explores the dissonance of lives lived between different political spheres. Mostyn builds intuitive stories through layering and collage, mixing new and archival material. Mostyn has exhibited at, among others, Södertälje Art Gallery, Kalmar Art Museum, Hasselblads Center and is represented in the collections of the Moderna Museet, the Statens Konstråd and the Albright-Knox Museum.
Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (b. 1988, Nigeria) works with lens and non-lens based photography presented as installations, performance and prints. At the core of her practice is an investigation of material processes that explore new forms within the framework of established techniques. Agunbiade-Kolawole has exhibited widely in Sweden and internationally. Her work is represented in the the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Göteborg konstmusset, Stockholm Läns Landsting, Uppsala Läns Landsting, & Brucebo Foundation in Sweden; National Health Services, Barking & Dagenham Council, Kingston.
Anna Tellgren is the curator of photography at Moderna Museet. Among her most recent exhibitions is Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff. Alternative Secrecy (2021) and the same year In lady Barclay's salon – art and photography around 1900 with works from the Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum collections. The exhibition Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel (2015) has toured internationally. She is also in charge of research at the museum and has contributed to a wide range of publications, including as editor of the book Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet. From Stockholm to Paris (2023).