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Paul Mpagi Sepuya — Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313)
Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313)

2022

Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313) places the viewer inside the intimate logic of Paul Mpagi Sepuya's ongoing studio practice, where the camera, the mirror, and the body exist in a continuous, self-aware conversation. Made in 2022 and printed as an archival pigment print measuring approximately 63 by 42 centimeters, the work belongs to the artist's sustained investigation into how photography constructs and deconstructs the act of looking. Sepuya uses the studio not as a neutral backdrop but as an active subject, layering reflections and fragments to reveal the apparatus of image-making itself. The result is a picture that refuses straightforward representation, inviting instead a meditation on presence, visibility, and the charged relationship between photographer and photographic space. Sepuya, who studied at NYU and has exhibited widely across major international institutions, has become one of the most critically significant voices working in contemporary photography. His pictures are held in prominent public and private collections, and his practice has been recognized for the way it brings questions of queer identity and Black subjectivity into a rigorous conceptual framework rooted in the history of the medium. Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313) is a strong entry point into this body of work, combining formal sophistication with an emotional directness that rewards sustained looking. The print is signed by the artist and is being offered through the Bronx Museum of the Arts Benefit Auction, representing an opportunity to acquire a recent work by an artist at a particularly generative moment in his career.

Medium
Archival pigment print
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313), 2022

Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313) places the viewer inside the intimate logic of Paul Mpagi Sepuya's ongoing studio practice, where the camera, the mirror, and the body exist in a continuous, self-aware conversation. Made in 2022 and printed as an archival pigment print measuring approximately 63 by 42 centimeters, the work belongs to the artist's sustained investigation into how photography constructs and deconstructs the act of looking. Sepuya uses the studio not as a neutral backdrop but as an active subject, layering reflections and fragments to reveal the apparatus of image-making itself. The result is a picture that refuses straightforward representation, inviting instead a meditation on presence, visibility, and the charged relationship between photographer and photographic space. Sepuya, who studied at NYU and has exhibited widely across major international institutions, has become one of the most critically significant voices working in contemporary photography. His pictures are held in prominent public and private collections, and his practice has been recognized for the way it brings questions of queer identity and Black subjectivity into a rigorous conceptual framework rooted in the history of the medium. Daylight Studio Mirror (_DSF4313) is a strong entry point into this body of work, combining formal sophistication with an emotional directness that rewards sustained looking. The print is signed by the artist and is being offered through the Bronx Museum of the Arts Benefit Auction, representing an opportunity to acquire a recent work by an artist at a particularly generative moment in his career.

Medium
Archival pigment print
Dimensions
sheet: 62.9 x 42.5 x 3.8 cm
Year
2022
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Bronx Museum of the Arts Benefit Auction

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