The Lafleur & Bogaert duo brings together two distinct worlds. Michel Lafleur, a Haitian portrait painter locally known for his elaborate decorations in Port-au-Prince barbershops, originally trained to paint the façades of tap taps, Port-au-Prince’s famously ornate small buses. Tom Bogaert is a Belgian artist, formerly a human rights lawyer with extensive experience in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

The two artists would likely never have met without The Ghetto Biennale, a creative institution launched in 2009 that pairs international artists with artists from the Grand Rue neighborhood, gathered in a group known as Atis Rezistans (resistance artists). Working together since 2013, Lafleur & Bogaert is the most enduring collaboration to emerge from that event.

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