TOM BOGAERT

TOM BOGAERT

  • WORKS
    • Wij Gwij Popinjay
    • Bonbon Tè Majik
    • Famasi Mobil Kongolè
    • Sun Ra Ra
    • This is Rwanda
    • Fountain
    • Ruining the City
    • Zoombies
    • Live from Berlin
    • Walking the Hellweg
    • Revolutions per Minute
    • Ant Farm Lagos
    • Observance
    • One two three, vive l'Algérie
    • Free Lens
    • Foam (I'm gonna live forever)
    • Bright Eyes
    • SecaCam Raptor
    • the one invented, twisted animator
    • 1971, Sun Ra in Egypt
    • pepsi, cola, water?
    • Prestige
    • Green Line
    • Voyage, voyage
    • Cracked Windshields
    • Pavement Popsicles
    • And Did Those Feet
    • Ant Farm Nablus
    • Sounds neat
    • Syria objects
    • Minecraft Mausoleum
    • Ariel
    • Watertanks
    • Greenhouse
    • Jordan Cucumber
    • KOMPRESSOR
    • Canary Space Ship
    • Empire state-building
    • Performance residue
    • Peacocks
    • Masque Qualité Export
  • RESUME
  • NEWS
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT

by Lafleur & Bogaert for documenta fifteen
Garden of the St. Kunigundis church in Kassel.


For documenta fifteen we repurposed an abandoned construction vehicle from which we sold clay cakes made with Kassel clay. While the myth exists that people in Haiti have had to resort to eating dirt due to extreme poverty, the reality is that mud cakes, or ‘bonbon tè’, are traditionally used as a dietary supplement — typically during pregnancy, due to the mineral content of the clay.


Experimenting with different recipes, flavours, motifs, and designs, we offered the cakes to the public who could then eat or collect the ‘Bonbons Tè Majik.’


LAFLEUR & BOGAERT


Michel Lafleur (Haiti) and Tom Bogaert (Belgium) are two artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Lafleur & Bogaert. They began creating art together in 2013 when they met at the 3rd edition of the Atis Rezistans / Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


Press Review Lafleur & Bogaert documenta fifteen