Santiago MOSTYN

Santiago Mostyn makes films, installations and performances that test the divide between disparate cultural spheres, employing an intuitive process to engage with a knowledge and history grounded equally in the body and the rational mind. His work may be viewed as an ongoing visual research framework, where materials range from academic archives to the artist’s own photographs in order to reconsider how broader histories and personal memory might intersect. He is based in Sweden but maintains strong ties to Zimbabwe and Trinidad & Tobago, the countries of his upbringing. Mostyn received his BA from Yale University and after attending Städelschule in 2006-2007, he received an MA in 2013 from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Mostyn co-curated the Moderna Exhibition 2018: With the Future Behind Us, Moderna Museet’s survey of contemporary art in Sweden, and has exhibited widely at venues including AndréhnSchiptjenko, Stockholm (2021), the Luleå Biennial (2020), the 12th Rencontres de Bamako (2019), Institut Suédois Paris (2019), Gothenburg Biennial (2017), Moderna Museet (2016), Kunsthall Stavan- ger (2014), and Performa13 in New York. Mostyn was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 2021 and will be a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart in 2022.