BONBON TÈ MAJIK
Bonbon Tè Majik (2022)
Installation view documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany.
For documenta fifteen Lafleur & Bogaert repurposed an abandoned construction vehicle from which they sold mud 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, Lafleur & Bogaert offered the cakes to the public who could then eat or collect the ‘Bonbons Tè Majik.’