In Mirror Study (_MG_1237_), Paul Mpagi Sepuya constructs a layered encounter between bodies, photographs, and the reflective surface of the studio mirror. A print from an earlier session has been taped directly to the mirror, and the camera records this doubled image alongside the artist's own arm reaching into the frame, producing a partial self-portrait that collapses past and present photographic moments into a single plane. The result is a controlled yet intimate disruption of traditional portraiture, where the studio itself becomes an active participant rather than a neutral backdrop. Sepuya, born in 1982, has developed this mode of working across critically recognized bodies of work shown at institutions and galleries in the United States and internationally, examining homoerotic visual culture and the charged dynamics between artist, sitter, and viewer. The 129.5 × 86.4 cm archival pigment print rewards close attention, with its layering of frames within frames drawing the eye into successive depths of mediation. Sepuya is not simply documenting a scene but choreographing visibility itself, deciding what the camera reveals, what the mirror deflects, and how desire circulates through those negotiations. The fragmented body here is never fully exposed nor fully withheld, a formal strategy that implicates the viewer in the same economy of looking that the work interrogates. Signed by the artist, this work from the Mirror Study series represents a particularly distilled expression of his ongoing inquiry into photography as a medium capable of performing intimacy as much as recording it. The work is presented in association with Document, Chicago and Yancey Richardson, New York, and is currently on offer through The Kitchen.