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Exhibition - Mad̲ayin: Sacred Maps and Stories of Australia

Name: Exhibition - Mad̲ayin: Sacred Maps and Stories of Australia
Start: 2026-06-04
End: 2026-11-01
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Maison Forte de Hautetour, Maison forte de Hautetour, 114 passage Montjoux Saint-Gervais, 74170 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains

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In the heart of the Central Desert, Arnhem Land, and the Kimberley regions, Australia’s First Nations peoples draw upon a wide range of resources that enable them to inhabit, understand, and represent the land.

It is through sacred stories, rituals, and pervasive art forms that communities manage to ground themselves in reality. As the cradle of artistic traditions dating back thousands of years, Northern and Central Australia have preserved creation stories passed down through generations for over sixty thousand years. The stories of the Dreamtime weave the fabric of a culture in which supernatural figures, ancestral lands, and cultural teachings intertwine. Aboriginal cosmology views animate, inanimate, and supernatural beings as equally alive. Rocks, waterholes, vegetation, animals, and the starry sky are not merely part of a landscape: they carry a symbolic and spiritual depth that anchors individuals in a continuity of daily life, the land, and ceremonial times. Works on bark, paintings on canvas, crafted objects, and contemporary practices bear witness to this relationship with the land. As cartographies where physical spaces and spiritual dimensions overlap, these works become vehicles for transmission through which knowledge, practices, and narratives circulate in a continuity that bridges different timeframes. Yet not everything is revealed: certain forms of knowledge remain protected, preserving an essential aspect of the sacred.