4 May 2021, Boyfriend.Dick – Tarot Reading with Paul Sepuya
Boyfriend.Dick is a performer who works at the intersection of visual art, pornography and social media performance. Using specially created tarot cards, he regularly gives readings for his many followers. His deck of cards depicts internet archetypes such as The Influencer, The Baby Angel, The Porn Star or The Troll and uses found imagery taken from his meme account.
In regular virtual readings, Boyfriend.Dick approaches a “weird kind of art talk,” speaking with invited guests about their practice by way of his tarot cards. His fourth guest is Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photographs are studies of intimate exchanges between subjects, often, as in his series Darkroom Mirror (2017), between himself, depicted in the act of taking a photograph, and friends, lovers, peers. In the series, Sepuya stages a game with mirrors that are at times smudged or smeared, blurring exposure and confusing layers of capture. Sepuya’s photographs complicate preconceptions of the relationship between artist and subject, between who is looking at who and why, and imagine the studio as a performative space.
The reading will take place on Boyfriend.Dick's Instagram account at 8 pm CEST (Rome), 11 am PDT (Los Angeles).
Boyfriend.Dick (b. 1991, Michigan USA) lives and works in Brooklyn. He is a Sagittarius.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, California USA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and Acting Associate Professor at UC San Diego.
4 May 2021, Boyfriend.Dick – Tarot Reading with Paul Sepuya
Boyfriend.Dick is a performer who works at the intersection of visual art, pornography and social media performance. Using specially created tarot cards, he regularly gives readings for his many followers. His deck of cards depicts internet archetypes such as The Influencer, The Baby Angel, The Porn Star or The Troll and uses found imagery taken from his meme account.
In regular virtual readings, Boyfriend.Dick approaches a “weird kind of art talk,” speaking with invited guests about their practice by way of his tarot cards. His fourth guest is Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photographs are studies of intimate exchanges between subjects, often, as in his series Darkroom Mirror (2017), between himself, depicted in the act of taking a photograph, and friends, lovers, peers. In the series, Sepuya stages a game with mirrors that are at times smudged or smeared, blurring exposure and confusing layers of capture. Sepuya’s photographs complicate preconceptions of the relationship between artist and subject, between who is looking at who and why, and imagine the studio as a performative space.
The reading will take place on Boyfriend.Dick's Instagram account at 8 pm CEST (Rome), 11 am PDT (Los Angeles).
Boyfriend.Dick (b. 1991, Michigan USA) lives and works in Brooklyn. He is a Sagittarius.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, California USA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and Acting Associate Professor at UC San Diego.