The Anguilla Pursuit
Amrita Hepi

The Anguilla Pursuit takes inspiration from the migration of freshwater eels, Anguilla Anguilla, that travel over 2000 km from New Caledonia to the freshwaters of the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. In this split channel work, Hepi personifies the Anguilla Anguilla home through the Sydney Opera House and into the surrounding water in a dynamic chase scene. Through metaphor and allusion, Hepi’s work explores the physical and psychological dimensions of the “oceanic feeling”. 

Amri­ta Hepi is an award win­ning artist work­ing with dance and chore­og­ra­phy through video, the social func­tion of per­for­mance spaces, instal­la­tion and objects. Using hybrid­i­ty and the exten­sion of choreograph­ic or per­for­ma­tive prac­tices, Amri­ta cre­ates work that consid­ers the body’s rela­tion­ship to person­al his­to­ries and the archive. Amrita’s work has tak­en var­i­ous forms (film, perfor­mance, sculp­ture, text, lec­ture, par­tic­i­pa­to­ry instal­la­tion), but always begins with the body as a point of mem­o­ry and resistance.

Commissioned by Sydney Opera House and C-Lab, Taiwan with the support of Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. 

Amrita Hepi is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.