The Family Lexicon (a bone to pick)

The Family Lexicon (a bone to pick) by sisters Amrita Hepi and Althea Tennant transforms the gallery into a sculptural sentence built from repurposed, repainted playground slides. The installation explores the emotional syntax of family—its interruptions, repetitions, miscommunications, and reconciliations. The colour palette of pink, orange, and yellow evokes temporal thresholds between night and day, clarity and obscurity. The slides stammer and intersect like language reforming mid-thought, becoming vessels for tension, memory, and return. This is Tennant's first public exhibition; their shared labour in selecting colours and debating placements becomes the medium itself. Glowing inside the gallery 24/7, the work becomes public eavesdropping into a private world.