You can now visit Australia without leaving Paris, thanks to the exhibition “Songlines”, or song tracks, among the Australian Aborigines. To discover their world, you have to immerse yourself in a desert setting and in the legend of the Seven Sisters, one of the most popular legends in the country.
The fate of seven sisters pursued by a sorcerer, this is the story of the legendary Aboriginal Australian legend told in ‘Songlines’. The exhibition is at the Quai Branly Museum
. This common thread story takes the viewer by hand, towards the most deserted land and the clearest starry sky. It is enough to completely immerse yourself on the other side of the world in Oceania, all in verse. Dazzling canvases are displayed on the walls using the pointillism technique and expressing the vibration of the area, according to the indigenous people.
Love, adventure and fear
For Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel, scientific expert on the exhibition, this exhibition is “standing, like all knowledge Indigenous people, on stories. The community elders chose an epic full of twists and turns, with love, adventure and a little bit of fear too. The masterpiece of this exhibition, which is also a poster, is a large canvas created by several Aboriginal people in 2013. There are multicolored panels depicting a kind of aerial view of a sacred land located in Western Australia, a place where women are turned to stone, according to a story Action Heroines, Seven Sisters.
Gallery available from €9 until July 2nd, enough time to try it a few times.
