Nomads of Mauritania aims at understanding the cultural identity (religious beliefs, language, values, relationships with others) of the Mauritanian nomads through their geographical environment, an original history, their lifestyle, caste system, diet, housing and crafts and how it is revealed by their art, materially expressed on the everyday objects and the body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art. Furthermore, what has become of the nomads of Mauritania with the climate warming and the economic and cultural globalization and to what extent are they still the pillars and heart of the Mauritanian society of today?

Brigitte Himpan, Artist Painter, obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts in 1983 at the
University of Paris VIII (France) about the everyday life of the Mauritanian nomads
through their usual objects and a post-graduate pre-PhD's degree in Philosophy of Art
and Culture in 1986 at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I (France) concerning
the cultural identity of the Mauritanian nomads.