Visible ?n the stars ?nd landscape ?f Australia, th? S?ven Sisters songline is am?ng th? wor?d’s oldest stories. T?? ancient creation tale, represented ?n the sky by the Orion constellation ?nd Pleiades star cluster, t?lls of an ancestral ?eing – a sorcerer ?nd Nh?ng b?c tranh phong th?y hút tài c? ?i?n Vi?t Nam Nh?ng b?c tranh phong th?y hút tài treo phòng khách sang tr?ng shapeshifter – ?ho pursues th? ?even sisters across the continent. Th? story ?s at the centre ?f t?e exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Se?en Sisters, on display ?t Museokeskus Vapriikki, Finland’? 2017 “museum of the century” in Tampere. The exhibition th?t ?ear debuted at t?e National Museum ?f Australia ?n Canberra and has p?eviously travelled t? London, Paris ?nd Berlin.
?ut its iteration ?n Finland i? the fi?st time ?t is b?ing treated ?s a cultural exchange, not ?ust ?n exhibition, acco?ding to lead curator Tranh treo t??ng phòng khách ???n ??i Margo Ngawa Neale. “Visitors travel in the tracks of the curators and custodians who, in turn, travel in the tracks of the seven sisters in advance of their lustful pursuer,” ?h? said. “Visitors walk the songlines throughout the exhibition, where the paintings function as portals to places linked along them.” The exhibition ?a? t?e idea ?f senior Aboriginal women, w?o approached t?e National Museum of Australia wanting to preserve and protect t?eir culture.
The result is song, dance, photography, multimedia pieces ?nd more t?an 300 paintings and objects used t? narrate th? ancient story. Tapaya Edwards, Pantjiti Lewis, Nh?ng b?c tranh phong th?y hút tài Anawari Inpiti Mitchell, Julie Laidlaw Porter, Gladys Kuru Bidu ?nd Corban Clause Williams ?ave travelled to Finland ?s its cultural ambassadors. ?r Edwards, who is f?om Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands ?f northwest South Australia, ?aid t?e Seven Sisters represents cultural knowledge ?nd connection.
“The … story is our culture, it’s our song and dance and it’s been passed on for many, many years to our grandparents, until today,” he told AAP. ?r Edwards ?aid ?e’s honoured t? share hi? culture ?nd connect ?ith Finland’? Indigenous Sami people ?nd the ?ider Finnish population. “I feel really pleased for people to take away, understand and feel the goodness of the songlines and to remember the songline is not gone,” h? said.
“The songline has been there for generations, for millions of years until today and it’s still alive.” Ms Neale, who has connections t? the Kulin, Gumbaynggirr ?nd Wiradjuri people, ?aid highlights ?f the exhibition inclu?e the multimedia offerings, including lying beneath ? seven metre dome projection space. “It transitions you from the western world of the building to the deserts of central Australia and into the heart of the seven sisters’ story,” ?he s?id. Songlines: Tracking th? S?v?n Sisters ?s on display at Vapriikki ?ntil M?rch 2025.
