City of Stonnington
Amrita Hepi, Aisle, Isle (I'll), 2023
... ...Homophone...Stonnington contemporary art collection First Peoples First Nations Indigenous Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Photography Amrita Hepi Sisters Homophone Doppelgänger Fictional Townsville Memory Cultural identity Aisle, Isle (I'll) Amrita Hepi ...
Artist and choreographer Amrita Hepi uses visual and verbal homophones to explore identity, memory, and structural spaces.
The title of this work Aisle, Isle (I'll) plays on three words that sound identical but carry different meanings: a walkway (aisle), an island (isle), and a contraction of intent (I'll).
Framed through this linguistic play, Aisle Isle (I'll) depicts the artist and her younger sister as a conceptual doppelgänger. Operating as a ‘human homophone,’ her sister’s presence is simultaneously familiar yet distinctly independent. Together they inhabit a stylised, fictionalised vignette captured against the tropical backdrop of their shared birthplace, Townsville.
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