Saint-Soleil, l'aventure du mouvement qui a marqué l'histoire de la peinture haïtienne

Haiti, 1975. André Malraux climbs the heights of a remote hill overlooking the bay of Port-au-Prince to meet a small community of painters composed of peasants and artisans that arose there.

Malraux came to see with his own eyes the canvases of Saint-Soleil, this painting of miraculous strangeness inspired by voodoo, which he described as the most striking of the twentieth century.

This novel revives the beautiful and fruitful utopia that was Saint-Soleil, this little-known chapter of modern art history born in reaction to the outrageous commercialization of Haitian naïve painting.

While the Duvalier dictatorship raged and the consequences of the American occupation remained burning, the raw art of Saint-Soleil attempted to escape the call of dollars by paving the way for a decolonial artistic practice, emancipated from any form of domination.

Luce Perez-Tejedor lived in Haiti and Senegal. Saint-Soleil is her first novel.

Event labeled André Malraux Fiftieth Anniversary by the Ministry of Culture .

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