Michel Lafleur & Tom Bogaert

This sculptural mobile pharmacy is reminiscent of artist Bodys Isek Kingelez’s, “extreme maquettes.” Mobile pharmacies are the main source of medicine for many Haitians. Street vendors carry spires of curved cardboard covered with pills — painkillers, antibiotics, Viagra knockoffs, condoms, abortion pills and cough syrups. The “Famasi Mobil Kongolè” (50 x 15 x 8 inches), brought to 14th street by artists Michel Lafleur and Tom Bogaert, includes battery powered electric lights, Congo Blue filter sheets, hand painted cardboard, plastic buckets, multicolored pills, rubber bands, and pairs of scissors.