One of the winners of the residency program of the Quatre Chemins Festival 2026, themed "Art is alive against death," Haitian visual artist François John Woodly is currently developing, with his project Tèt San Kò <\/i>, an artistic research at the intersection of myth, spirituality, and traumas related to violence in Haiti. Through painting, he questions the invisible wounds that mark bodies and imaginations.<\/p>

In a Haitian context marked by insecurity, forced displacements, and the persistence of violence, art can become a space where experiences that fear and silence sometimes make difficult to express are told. It is in this perspective that François John Woodly's work fits, whose approach explores the links between memory, spirituality, and popular imagination. In residency, he pursues research around Tèt San Kò, <\/i>a symbolic figure in Haitian popular tales, which he reinvests to conceive the effects of violence on individuals and their relationship to the world.<\/p>