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‘It is about my attempt to situate queerness and blackness as starting points for looking at the medium,’ says Paul Mpagi Sepuya. A slew of exhibitions, including the #WhitneyBiennial and recent shows at the @Guggenheim and the @GettyMuseum, have put #PaulMpagiSepuya’s name on everyone’s lips. The Angeleno artist re-examines portrait photography’s formal and conceptual foundations, as well as its traditional tools: mirrors, black velvet, and darkrooms. Questions around the representation of the black and the queer body – be it his own or his friends’ and collaborators’ –  also inform Sepuya’s sensitive and intimate body of work. He welcomed #ArtBasel in his Boyle Heights studio. — Paul Mpagi Sepuya is represented by @DocumentSpace (Chicago) and @Vielmetter Los Angeles. Document will present a solo booth by Paul Mpagi Sepuya in the Positions sector during #ArtBaselMiamiBeach 2019. — Camera and edit: @GillianGarcia Production: @ColineMilliard and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat (@sangbleujsr) for @ArtBasel