Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dark Room Mirror, 2017

Paul Sepuya, Darkroom Mirror (_2060999), 2017

What’s become of him? In the current issue of Elephant magazine we explore the new male gaze, and look to the future of masculinity, as binaries are broken and gender roles are blurred. “I can say that I’ve learned more about masculinity from my butch dyke friends than from any straight man,” says Paul Sepuya in his interview with Charlotte Jansen. The artist’s work is suspended between self-portraiture, the camera and homoerotic visual culture—and in it he negotiates a new place in art history for the nude male body. You can buy issue 38 here.