Sepuya, Paul Mpagi
Paul Mpagi Sepuya
- ISBN 13:
- 9781597114806
- author:
- Sepuya, Paul Mpagi
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Aperture
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 88
- Dimensions:
- 25.4 x 20.32 x 0.76 centimetres
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography,Photography, Individual Photographer,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A Decade of Photographs
This monograph is the first to survey over a decade of the artist's practice, offering a unique opportunity to explore visual, thematic, and conceptual connections across several bodies of work. The exhibition charts the artist's evolution in image-making, revealing a profound intimacy between the artist and their sitters.
The photographs feature friends, artists, collaborators, and the artist himself, offering a perspective from a black, queer gaze. Through layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and shadow, Sepuya deconstructs traditional portraiture, challenging notions of "sitter" and "subject". The resulting work is movingly honest, made with no digital intervention, exposing its own making with the apparatus of photography.