Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photography is instantly recognisable in its content and its composition. His practice, which he considers more art than photography, has gone back two decades and has looked at queer bodies, sexuality, race and colonial history through the captured image. Spanning portraiture, self-portraiture and collage, his studio-based work uses mirrors, found objects and the camera itself to explore our perceptions of bodies in relation to photography.
Now, a survey of his recent work, ‘Exposures’, is on view at Nottingham Contemporary, in the artists’ first UK institutional show (until 5 May 2024).
