Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara | Met Exhibitions

The Met – Jan 17, 2020

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The western Sahel—a vast region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled by a network of global trade routes extending across the region, the empires of Ghana (300–1200), Mali (1230–1600), Songhay (1464–1591), and Segu (1640–1861) cultivated an enormously rich material culture. Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara will be the first exhibition of its kind to trace the legacy of the mighty states the western Sahel and what they produced in the visual arts.

Credits:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Alex Guns
Graphic Design: Natasha Mileshina
Motion Graphics: Angelical Von Helle
Music: “Lafisa” by Famoro Dioubate from the album Kontendemi (Patience)

Photographs:

© Maurice Ascani, www.photographe-niger
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
David Conrad
Hughes Dubois
Courtesy of Ferdinando Fagnola Archives, Turin
Mamma Haidara Memorial Library
Courtesy Menil Collection
Photo by James Morris
Musée des Confluences, photo by Louis Desplagnes
© Museum Ulm— Weickmann Collection, photo by Oleg Kuchar, Ulm
Courtesy Partners Pays Dogon
RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY
Antoine Tempé

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Exhibition Tour—Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

The Met – May 15, 2020

Exhibition credits:

Sahel: Art and Empires On The Shores of The Sahara is curated by Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Met with the assistance of Yaëlle Biro, Associate Curator and Hakimah Abdul-Fattah, Research Associate

Exhibition Design: Alejandro Stein
Graphic Design: Alexandre Viault and Gina Shin
Project Manager: Rachel Ferrante
Registrar: Mary F. Allen
Conservation and Installation: Christine Giuntini, Sara Levin, Carolyn Riccardelli, Fred Sager, Andrew Estep, Jacob Goble, Matthew Cumbie
Digital and Sound: Paul Caro, Peter Berson, Lamar Stephens
Installation Coordinator: David Rhoads
Departmental Technician: Damien Marzocchi
Buildings: Maria Nicolino
Lighting: Richard Lichte

Video production:

Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Alex Guns
Installation photography: Anna-Marie Kellen
Footage from Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today, directed by Susan Vogel, Produced by Susan Vogel, Samuel Sidibé, Eric Engles, and the Musée National du Mali, An Icarus Films Release, © Susan Vogel, Prince Street Pictures Inc., and Samuel Sidibé and the Musée National du Mali
Music: “Salaman” by Toumani Diabaté with Ballake Sissoko, from the album New Ancient Strings, courtesy Reservoir Media Management (Label) (on behalf of Chrysalis Records)

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