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Strange leaves
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H 48 cm W 48 cm D 32 cm
Welding work on rods and sections of steel tubing
Portraits of children, some by Lewis Hine (1874-1940), August Sander (1876-1964) and Horace Warner (1876-1915).
These photos bear witness to the living conditions of children in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Work, poverty, deprivation, instrumentalization, acculturation, war...
They captivate us with the intensity of their gazes and the strength of the feelings expressed: anger, fear, sadness, disenchantment, incomprehension, accusations.
The work raises questions about what a society is capable of doing to its children, and what they may be capable of perpetrating as adults.
The work and its title evoke the song “Strange Fruit” itself, denouncing lynchings during the period of segregation.
