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Performance lecture with Amrita Hepi

An Afternoon of a Faun

Saturday 11 March 2023
Amrita Hepi performing Faun
Amrita Hepi performing Faun, 2023 © Charles Dennington

Join us for a special performance lecture commissioned for the Gallery's latest exhibition Portrait23: Identity.

Dancer and artist Amrita Hepi, a Bundjulung/Ngapuhi woman, reappropriates the image of the faun from Nijinsky's Ballet, An Afternoon of a Faun, originally performed by Ballets Russes in 1912. Through this subversion, the artist is interested in how the faun interacts with her own personal histories: lineages of dance, the presence of Eros placed onto a blak femme body, and the resistance to a ‘classic formalism’.

Amrita Hepi performing Faun
Amrita Hepi performing Faun
Amrita Hepi performing Faun
1 2 3 Amrita Hepi performing Faun 2023 All © Charles Dennington.
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