‘Songline’ exhibition at RIC recreates legendary story

Jaipur: A multimedia exhibition, ‘Walking Through a Songline', is currently on at Rajasthan International Centre (RIC). The Australian exhibition, which started on Jan 23 and will end on Feb 18, has a six-minute duration. Run daily from 11am to 7pm, it is open to the public for Rs 49 each and free for students.
This immersive light installation, developed by National Museum of Australia and originally crafted in 2017 by over 100 artistes, has earlier been held successfully in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata. Australia's High Commissioner to India, Philip Green, said, "We are delighted to bring this exhibition to Jaipur."
The exhibition brings to life the Seven Sisters Songline, a legendary story deeply connected to various landscapes and cultural groups, said organisers. It narrates how this story originates in Martu country of the Western Desert, where a sorcerer pursues a group of sisters. He transforms himself—sometimes into water, sometimes into a shady tree, and at times into delicious food—to deceive them. However, the sisters, possessing shape-shifting abilities of their own, escape while creating new songlines along the way.