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Upcoming Exhibition
Heartlands | City Art Centre, Edinburgh
28 November – 13 December 2026
I am delighted to be presenting MAC TALLA: Echoes of Life, a new immersive sound and vocal installation developed through my residency at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, as part of Heartlands.
Bringing together four Edinburgh-based international artists — Alina Litvinova, Maimouna Ly, Robert Motyka and Kelly Zou — Heartlands explores themes of community, home and belonging through different artistic practices.
Through song, chant, breath and spoken word, MAC TALLA: Echoes of Life explores the human voice as a carrier of emotion, memory and connection. Unfolding through three interconnected movements — Rebirth, Gathering and Transmission — the installation invites visitors to experience the voice as both a physical and emotional presence.
Private View
Thursday 26 November 2026, 6.30–8.30 pm
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh
Everyone is warmly welcome to join us for the opening evening.
Exhibition dates: 27 November – 13 December 2026
Venue: City Art Centre, Edinburgh
MAC TALLA: Echoes of Life is supported by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Diversity and Inclusion Fund Bursary Award 2026, in partnership with City Art Centre.
Listening for Home_Songs and Storytelling Performance
Celebrating unique talent across Scotland: 2026 Small Grants and Arts Open awardees
– Scottish Storytelling Centre – Netherbow Theatre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR, Free event, doors open at 6.30pm. Performance starts: 7pm (no entry after this time).
The performance will be followed by a reception at the Storytelling Court from 8pm.
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
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Life’s a mystery written in breaths we’re taking day after day,
Singing through what we cannot name, Awareness gives meaning,
Dancing with the unknown, that’s where freedom begins.
I am a multidisciplinary artist and a shaman. My music draws on ancestral shamanic wisdom and interdimensional light-language vocals, blending sacred instruments with intuitive sound. I create free-flowing soundscapes that offer space for the remembering, rebirth and radiance. My writing follows a similar path, guided by intuition and rooted in the belief that stories can reconnect us with parts of ourselves that we forget or abandon. My practice weaves artistic expression with listening, creating spaces for transformation, remembrance and connection.
About me
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I work across voice, performance, sound, and stories. I approach voice as both movement and memory, a way of carrying stories across time, place, and experience. My work explores belonging, identity, and the traces we hold in the body.
My practice is informed by ritual, ancestral memory, and deep listening. Through intimate performances, I create spaces where sound, silence, and presence invite expanded states of perception.
My work is deeply connected to spiritual and intuitive practice which naturally informs my artistic language. Rather than separating these paths, I allow them to meet through voice, presence, and the unseen, shaping experiences that move between performance and ritual.
Rooted in West Africa where I was born, France, where I grew up, and Scotland, which I now call home, my work moves across cultures, forms, and states of being.
What unites all my forms of art, healing, expression is a desire to honour ancestry and our divine origins, uplift the spirit and manifest creations that resonates across cultures.
Nature, Forest fascinate me with their mysteries, its whispers, its subtle movements, and its secrets. It is a living space, a place of restoration and healing where I reconnect with what is essential.
Maimouna