Dance Dance Revolution

Watching Monumental, one might anticipate a voiceover reminiscent of documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis—an iconic, constrained, British cadence—entering the fray. The four-minute video intersperses a dance performance with grainy archival footage of bodies in movement and snapshots of news reports, presenting a collage of what artist, dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi describes as “an economy of images”. Imagine a Curtis-esque narration again: “Their aim was to create a new world, one which…”

But Hepi’s art isn’t about the creation of just world: what’s different about is that it leaves room for plurality of thought while interrogating the idea of monuments as sacred