Invisible Maps

خرائط غير مرئية

Invisible Maps

Abdelmounaim Yousfi | Morocco

Abdelmounaim documents a road journey south from Marrakech through Mauritania to Senegal.

He drives rather than flies, insisting on sustained attention to how terrain, settlement, and light transform across hundreds of kilometers.

Mauritania remains almost entirely absent from global consciousness, barely registering in international news.

His photographs counter this invisibility by showing what exists: railroad tracks stretching to horizons, windmills marking sparse settlements, the slow accumulation of landscape.

These are simple assertions: these territories can be crossed, the paths can be shown, the desert is not impassable.

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B&W PHOTOGRAPHS
ARCHIVAL FINE ART PAPER
MAURITANIA | 2025

Artist Biography

Abdelmounaim Yousfi is a Moroccan artist, photographer, painter, and creative director whose practice centers on memory, borders, and visibility. His work emerges from a personal narrative: his father was a photographer who traveled across Arab countries documenting everything but never publicly showed his work. As an artist, Abdelmounaim is retracing this journey—this time making the archive visible.

His practice refuses the erasure of Arab mobility and knowledge, asserting presence and the possibility of crossing borders and sharing what lies beyond.