In this talk, Gaëlle Choisne recounts her personal and artistic relationship with Haiti, a place that holds a central presence throughout her practice. For her current exhibition Temple of Love. Coeur, Choisne created a dialogue with the work of 18 Haitian painters, many of them associated with the Saint Soleil movement, a renowned community of self-taught artists. However, the figure of the autodidact, like the label of naïve often attributed to Haitian art, are being rethought in the current critical debates, as they refer to notions developed in the context of Western modernity. 

This will be the starting point for a discussion on educational structures and paths in art, the relationship between learning and practice, and how new critical positions are emerging that revisit traditional dichotomies, boundaries and canons. 
Art historian, curator and educator Charlotte Laubard, who is author of the books Changing Art from the Outside in (HEAD, 2025) and The Self-Taught Enigma (Snoeck, 2021), will be in conversation with Gaëlle Choisne and with Irene Calderoni, artistic director of Scuola Piccola Zattere.