When looking at a P

When looking at a #PaulMpagiSepuya (@pagmi) portrait, what you see is what is there. Meticulously shot in his studio mirror, his practice challenges the history of photography and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of layering, fragmentation, reflection, and the perspective of the black, queer gaze. Sepuya wrote, ‘I want these queer, black photographs to exist within historic and contemporary conversations about photography as a whole, affirming the medium and my personal investment in its possible futures.’ — Paul Mpagi Sepuya, ‘Study (0X5A7397)’, 2018 via Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (@Vielmetter) | Galleries 2019 #artbasel2019 #artbasel