Known For: | Sculpting |
Birth Place: | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Woodly "Filipo" Caymitte (born 1974) is a Haitian sculptor whose works center around the historical struggles of black people.
Caymitte was born in 1974 in Port-au-Prince. From 2011 to 2015, he studied at the École Nationale des Arts in Haiti, later working as a professor of sculpture at the school.[1]
On May 10, 2019, Caymitte unveiled a 1.7-meter-tall bronze statue of Modeste Testas, titled "Clarisse, nurse slave" in Bordeaux. The statue was created to acknowledge the time in history.[2] [3] Karfa Diallo criticized the staute, saying that a freed person cannot represent the struggles of slavery.[4]
On May 31, 2020, Caymitte created a bust of George Floyd after his murder, six days after the event.[5]
On May 10, 2024, Caymitte unveiled a bronze statue of Mary Elizabeth Lange, an enslaved woman who was later freed, titled "Clarisse, nurse slave" in La Rochelle. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attended the ceremony. The statue features Lange breastfeeding a child.[6]