Ceremoni Grand Bois

Yves Telemak is Haiti’s preeminent living vévé flag artist, and was among the first flag makers to sign his work. Yves learned the ritual context of the flags, and later secularized the flags, setting high conceptual and technical standards for their production, and defining them as a uniquely Haitian fine art form. Telemak’s distinctive wide, colorful, geometric borders frame central panel scenes of bold dramatizations of the Vodou gods, Haitian cultural history and his own biographical experience.