I would like to improve my English writing skills, so what must I do? Write more often!

I would like to upgrade my abilities when it comes to writing essays about arts and culture, so I will write more often!

I wish to share my experiences within the context of contemporary art production, and writing can be one of the strategies that I can use in order to do that. Therefore, I will write more often!

Why not see\read essays where the artworks are not only described but also critically analysed: do it yourself!

And the last question of these series that comes to my mind is about what I would like to be and the ideas I wish to live by in the near future? My answer is to become an art critic and the only way to reach my goal is by transforming myself into an art critic through writing.

In addition, some friends kept asking me why I don’t have a blog or a newsletter where I can publish and share my passion with others in a consistent fashion, functioning as an expansion of my facebook post?

I have the opportunity to have access to so many contemporary cultural productions that remain un-addressed by the press, or at least not in the way that I would wish for.

For a long time, I had been creating and finding excuses for not writing. I keep saying that I have to read more, that I am not ready to share my text in English because it’s not my mother language, so my works will be lexically poor and lastly, I even presume that my expected readers will not read them.

But here I am!  trying to convince myself that the time is know!

Indeed, now is time that I feel confident to start writing about the things that I like and I will do it in English, not because I would like to show off my polyglot skills, but because firstly, I would like to have a much bigger audience and secondly, by employing a lingua franca, I will engage with the ongoing debates about international contemporary art and culture.

I must start it now!

And I’m conscious that there are already so many magazines and journals that are publishing about art and culture, so why don’t I join them?

Why? why? maybe because I don’t know their editorial orientation and I am still not fully confident about beginning my critical writing adventure on these platforms. For now, I would like to be free to choose the topics and subjects that will write about.

In addition, I think that a lot of the already-exiting platforms that are producing content about art and culture do not include the perspective of someone like me who comes from outside of Europe.

But ultimately, what moves me is the strong desire to LEARN, to SHARE about how I experience the art world and eventually have a voice in the ongoing debates!

If you have reached this part of the text: Thank you!

All comments, suggestions are welcome!

I’m not afraid of my mistakes, so if you spot any, feel free to let me know about them.

In 2008, in Mozambique I create the first electronic cultural magazine, which I closed a year a later because I went to study abroad.  Since then my studies are ongoing and my disciplines are changing, but through this blog, I can use the skills I acquired with my first degree, which was in journalism, and connect it to everything else I have gathered in me and present it all here.

If you like my posts here, feel free to reach out to me for a discussion, because contact with like-minded people is a great motivation for me to keep writing, despite a crazy daily schedule.

Before I finish, I would like to explain and clarify why I chose the name of the blog: UnexpectedViewer.

Unexpected because, often as a person born in Africa, I am:

1. An unexpected reader;
2. Unexpected, when attending an exhibition and eventually buying an artwork;
3. Unexpected as a spectator for some movies or music.

So, in this blog I would like to share my experiences within the art scene especially when I get the feeling that I am not addressed by this art scene and that I am not part of the audience that the maker(s) had in mind during the production of their art work or event.

Let’s start!