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A satire as sharp as a mosquito’s bite, Art Critic & The Mosquito is a theatrical short that hovers between the grotesque and the sublime, probing the strange intimacy between critique, obsession, and desire.
In a sweat-slicked summer evening, an art critic taps away at her latest dissection of an elusive artwork that she simply cannot stand — or understand. Her frustration, wrapped in typewritten keystrokes and the buzz of professional fatigue, is interrupted by a tiny, insistent intruder: a mosquito.
But this is no ordinary pest.
Drawn by her discontent, the mosquito becomes a kind of vampiric muse, feeding quite literally on her lifeblood as she claws at the edges of understanding. The scene spins into surrealism as the act of critique becomes an act of consumption, of violation, of surrender.
With a painter’s eye and a poet’s wit, Laurence Fuller crafts a metaphor for how art takes from us, how criticism becomes a dance of intimacy, and how even revulsion can become a strange kind of affection. As the critic slaps her own blood across the surface of the painting she once despised, she realizes what she’d been missing all along:
It was love.
A fever dream of irony, flesh, and ink, Art Critic & The Mosquito asks: Can one truly critique what one hasn’t yet been bitten by?