Paul Mpagi Sepuya Book
Paul Mpagi Sepuya April 202096 pages, 77 four-color imagesEnglishsoftcover10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)Co-published by Aperture and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Interview with the artist by Wassan Al-KhudhairiContributions by Malik Gaines, Lucy Gallun, Ariel Goldberg, Evan Moffitt, and Grace Wales Bonner. 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.Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born in San Bernardino, California, 1982) is a Los Angeles–based artist. His work is collected and exhibited by such institutions as the Museum of Modern Ar