by Lafleur & Bogaert for Kunstverein Arnsberg – December 2022


Mobile pharmacies are the main source of medicine for many Haitians. Street vendors carry spires of curved paper covered with pills — painkillers, antibiotics, Viagra knockoffs, condoms, abortion pills and cough syrups.


The ‘Famasi Mobil Kongolè’ includes electric lights, Congo Blue filter sheets, hand painted cardboard, plastic buckets, multicolored pills, rubber bands and pairs of scissors.


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.


Their latest and perhaps most noticed project has been their participation in documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany as part of Atis Rezistans / Ghetto Biennale in the St. Kunigundis church.


Press Review Lafleur & Bogaert documenta fifteen

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


Mobile pharmacies are the main source of medicine for many Haitians. Street vendors carry spires of curved paper covered with pills — painkillers, antibiotics, Viagra knockoffs, condoms, abortion pills and cough syrups.


Michel Lafleur (Haiti) and Tom Bogaert (Belgium) present 4 mobile pharmacies inspired by the ‘Famasi Mobil Swis’ originally commissioned by the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


The ‘Famasi Mobil Kongolè’ includes electric lights, Congo Blue filter sheets, hand painted cardboard, plastic buckets, multicolored pills, rubber bands and pairs of scissors.


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

LAFLEUR & BOGAERT
Installation view BWAC Redhook, Brooklyn, NY
LAFLEUR & BOGAERT
Installation view BWAC Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
LAFLEUR & BOGAERT
LAFLEUR & BOGAERT
Famasi Mobil Swis, 2017
Portable pharmacy and Swiss flags - Installation view Lakou Eugene.
120 x 30 x 50 cm.

In collaboration with Olga Gaçon (HT) – Commissioned by the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Olga Gaçon