Amrita Hepi is an artist working in dance and choreography. A Bundjulung/Ngapuhi woman, Amrita’s work considers the body’s relationship to personal histories and archive, and investigates dance as social function performed within galleries, performance spaces, in video art and through digital technologies. In 2018 and 2020, she was the recipient of the People’s Choice Award for the Keir Choreographic Award. Recent commissions include work for Kaldor Public Art Projects/Serpentine Galleries London, South East Dance, Brighton and the Art Gallery of NSW. At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Amrita was a commissioned artist for The National: New Australian Art in 2019 and Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists.
Amrita’s work comprises two performance lectures staged on the opening weekend of Portrait23: Identity, and four photographic portraits in which she reappropriates and subverts the image of the faun from the ballet An Afternoon of a Faun, originally performed by Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes in 1912 with Claude Debussy’s symphonic poem.
