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Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

Title: Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Author: Sepuya, Paul Mpagi, 1982-
Publication: St. Louis, MO : Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ; New York, NY : Published in association with Aperture, 2020.

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Description

95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 26 cm

Summary

"The exhibition Paul Mpagi Sepuya is the first to survey more than a decade of the artist's practice. It offers the opportunity to trace visual, thematic, and conceptual connections across several bodies of work as well as to chart the artist's evolution in image-making. While we are privy to different strategies and varied nuances in his work, Sepuya consistently makes photographs that deconstruct traditional portraiture, challenging notions of 'sitter' and 'subject', and recasting the space, idea, and presence of the studio. His photographs feature friends, artists, collaborators, and himself, offering the perspective of a black, queer gaze. Figures are often rendered as abstractions through layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and shadow. Sometimes the body is represented only through traces left behind -- of fingerprints, impressions in a velvet backdrop, fingertips holding a drape. The portraits are movingly honest, made with no digital intervention; what you see is what was there. Sepuya's photographs expose their own making with the apparatus of photography as an integral part of the picture -- tripod, clamps, lenses, and the camera itself. The resulting work, covering multiple periods of Sepuya's career and life, reveals a profound intimacy between artist and sitters, reflecting a poignant generosity of spirit in its transparency."--Foreword, page 6.

Subject

Genre/Form

Interviews.
Exhibition catalogs.
Photobooks.

Note

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 17-August 18, 2019, [and] Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, October 19, 2019-March 14, 2020. Organized by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, chief curator, with Misa Jeffereis, assistant curator."--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / by Lisa Melandri -- Acknowledgments / by Wassan Al-Khudhairi -- Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya / by Wassan Al-Khudhairi -- Grease on glass / by Evan Moffitt -- Plates. Early portraits -- Red Studio / white feet / by Lucy Gallun -- Studio work, 2010-11 -- To empower the fragment / by Ariel Goldberg -- Some recent pictures, 2013-14 -- The studio / by Grace Wales Bonner -- Studies -- A parliament of parts / by Malik Gaines -- Mirror studies -- Dark room -- Exhibition checklist -- Contributor biographies / by Misa Jeffereis.

Call Number

Sc F 23-165

ISBN

9781597114806
1597114804

LCCN

2019917930

OCLC

1120098536

Author

Sepuya, Paul Mpagi, 1982- artist, photographer, interviewee.

Title

Paul Mpagi Sepuya.

Publisher

St. Louis, MO : Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ; New York, NY : Published in association with Aperture, 2020.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

EXHIBITION CATALOG. CO-PUB. W/ CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, ST. LOUIS. INCLUDES ESSAYS. COLOR ILLUS.

Added Author

Al-Khudhairi, Wassan, interviewer, curator.

Jeffereis, Misa, curator, author.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, host institution.

Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-165

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