Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Wassan Al-Khudhair

Aperture

2020

Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents the work of one of the most prominent up-and-coming photographers working today. Sepuya makes pho­tographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself. He chal­lenges and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of collage, layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and the perspective of a Black, queer gaze. Although the creation of artist books has been a long-standing part of his practice, Paul Mpagi Sepuya is the first publication of his work to be released widely, copublished with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on the occasion of a major solo exhibition.

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