Paul Mpagi sepuya
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Paris Photo Los Angeles announces the « Introducing! Young California Photographer Award »
Paris Photo, in partnership with J.P. Morgan Private Bank, is pleased to announce the inaugural INTRODUCING! Young California Photographer Award. For the first time, J.P. Morgan joins the Los Angeles edition as part of a mutual commitment to support the next generation of talented young photographers.
“We are thrilled to be sponsoring the first INTRODUCING! award as part of this year’s Paris Photo Los Angeles fair,” notes Lisa K. Erf, Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. “Ever since David Rockefeller established our corporate art collection in 1959, we have been devoted to identifying and supporting emerging contemporary artists. We are proud to be playing an important role with Paris Photo Los Angeles in recognizing new photographic talent.”
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Exhibition : « Figures, Grounds and Studies » by Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Press release - Yancey Richardson is pleased to present Figures, Grounds and Studies, Paul Mpagi Sepuyaʼs debut exhibition with the gallery. While deeply engaged with ideas about studio portraiture, the exhibition frames the photographic process as an ongoing conversation and negotiation between the viewer, the artist, the subject and the work. Simultaneously, Sepuya investigates the role of desire as a productive and critical force in the medium of photography.
© Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery.
Referencing artistic tropes of homoerotic studio photography, Sepuya comments on the medium as a process of constructive desire: the desire to photograph, to look and to touch. Using drapes or framing to partially obscure the sitter, the studio or the camera...
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