Bortolami is pleased to present TRANCE, an exhibition of new works by Paul
Mpagi Sepuya, and the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. With a new body of works depicting the studio and gallery, Sepuya weaves together new and ongoing lines of inquiry to create a stark constellation of image and form that reverberates with a hypnotic tension. The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.
Works
Night Studio Mirror (_ DSF1073), 2024
Photographing (_DSF4950), 2024
Gallery Gazing Ball Negative (DSCF2094), 2024
Night Studio Mirror Negative (_DSF0832), 2024
Gazing Ball Position 02 (_DSF2658), 2024
Gallery Mirror (DSCF1114), 2024
Gallery Mirror (DSCF1994), 2024
Studio Mirror Diptych (_DSF3596, _DSF3598), 2024
Gallery Gazing Ball (DSCF1919), 2024
Gallery Gazing Ball Negative (DSCF3246), 2024
Gallery Gazing Ball (DSCF3246), 2024