Ba Djibril Ngawa
Ba Djibril is from a very small pastoral village called “Douboulde”, south east of Mauritania in the Guidimaka region. His Fulanii family was a bridge between different Mauritanian ethnic groups, which made him a very multicultural person. “My art is a reflection of where I was born and raised in Africa. It is pastoral abstract and figurative expressionalism where feeling is strongly expressed. Any piece I create is a lyric, a melody, and movement in a visual form. I create freely while traveling on this endless journey of searching, learning, and discovering the unknown, and trying to understand the mystic. I view this as a bridge that links the cultural heritage of my nomadic-pastoral traditions with the contemporary artistic expressions of the Western world.”