The National Museum of Australia, in partnership with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, presents the acclaimed First Nations creation saga Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters. The first major National Museum of Australia exhibition to tour India, Songlines features a dramatic chase across the Australian deserts and showcases the ways that ancient knowledge, story, song, dance, culture and protocols are woven into the landscape and are grounded by tjukurrpa – Aboriginal Law. The exhibition in New Delhi will be the fifth international destination for Songlines, which debuted in Canberra in 2017 and has since toured to the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Finland. A world’s first in scale and complexity, this epic exhibition highlights five sections of the Indigenous Western and Central Desert songlines through nearly 300 paintings and objects, song, dance, photography and multimedia, to narrate the story of the Seven Sisters, as they fled along Ancestral routes, across deserts, pursued relentlessly by a sorcerer.
Find out more about the show here.