Lot 129
The Blue Tax (the blew tacks) 2023
inkjet print on Ilford Gallerie Pearl, ed. 1/3, diptych
79 x 118cm (image, overall); 82 x 124cm (frame, overall)
Estimate $6,000 - $7,000
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Straight Torque, Twin Series, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 19 August - 23 September 2023
"Artist and choreographer Amrita Hepi acknowledges the black and brown female body as an intricate vessel for, and of, historical knowledge. Hepi's work coalesces fact and fiction, memoir and ethnography, the local and the singular.
In Straight torque, twin series Hepi uses linguistic mechanisms, specifically homophones, as a framing device. Homophones (morning/mourning, blew/blue, I'll/aisle/isle) are defined as words sharing identical pronunciation but possessing distinct meanings. By pointedly using the paradoxical nature of the English language to develop a visual dialect, Hepi's work elicits a spectrum of effects, ranging from frustration and failure, to delight and the absurdity of our collective reality." (exhibition statement)
©Amrita Hepi/Copyright Agency, 2025
Fine Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8755
6:00pm - 22 October 2024
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 18 - Sun 20 Oct, 10am - 4pm
Mon 21 Oct, by appointment
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Wiebke Brix
wiebke.brix@leonardjoel.com.au
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