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| Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Studio, January 27, 2014, Laser print on paper, 8.5 x 11 inches. Image via paulsepuya.com. |
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 6pm
5020 South
Cornell Avenue
Chicago,
IL
Please
join the Hyde Park Art Center on Wednesday, March 26 at 6pm at Hyde Park Art
Center for a presentation by 2014 Jackman Goldwasser Residency Artist, Paul Mpagi Sepuya as he discusses his
practice and recent work.
Sepuya
explores what it means for artists using photography to be making portraiture
today. With the ubiquity of image-making, he challenges the diminished position
of the portrait photographer, asserting the importance of the artist and image
as rooted in time and place.
Occupying
the dual role of author and subject of the work, Sepuya examines the social
"bibliography" of a picture, which develops and accumulates over
time, across projects, in harmony and in tension with subjects and their
communities. Through the work Sepuya explores the possibility of return,
inquiring how photographs, print projects, and online disseminations return
from their excursions into the world enriching and complicating the studio
space as site of their origination.
The New
York-based artist will be in residence at Hyde Park Art
Center until April 15. While in Chicago, Sepuya will be tracing legacies of
individuals and institutions crucial to the development of Chicago's queer
culture. Echoing his practice, Sepuya's studio at Hyde Park Art Center will be
an important site for his experiments framing, cropping, and editing
photographs.
To set up
a studio visit or meeting, please contact Megha Ralapati at
mralapati@hydeparkart.org
For more
information on Sepuya's Chicago visit, the Jackman Goldwasser Residency and to
see a lineup of the Hyde Park Art Center’s 2014 Visiting Artists, please click here.
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