Figure (_2100799) draws the viewer into the intimate architecture of Paul Mpagi Sepuya's studio practice, where the boundaries between subject, photographer, and environment fold into one another with deliberate ambiguity. Part of Sepuya's ongoing Figure series, this 2017 archival inkjet print stages its subject within a visual language shaped by mirrors, collage, and the close physical proximity of friends, partners, and lovers who populate the artist's image-making world. The result is a work that operates simultaneously as portraiture and as an inquiry into homoerotic visual culture, asking how the photographic studio functions not merely as a backdrop but as a charged social space where desire, intimacy, and representation are negotiated in real time. Produced in an edition of fifty and signed by the artist, this print carries additional significance as a work that has not previously been exhibited or published, making it a genuinely fresh entry point into Sepuya's practice for collectors. Sepuya earned his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his work has since been presented at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. His prints are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, situating this modest but quietly powerful work within one of the most compelling bodies of contemporary photographic practice being made today.