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Mauritania

"Moorish desert song, silver craft."

Creative Identity

Mauritania carries one of the continent's most distinctive creative voices — a civilisation of makers, storytellers and innovators whose work has shaped, and is reshaping, the global imagination.

Artistic Heritage

Centuries of ceremony, craft and ritual — held in museums, master ateliers and the hands of living practitioners across every region of Mauritania.

Cultural Significance

A contemporary scene in dialogue with its inheritance — its painters, weavers, designers and filmmakers presented here on their own terms.

Four Disciplines · Mauritania

Enter the country through its makers.

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