Stranger Fruit: The Weight of Absence

Photographs by New York-based artist Jon Henry. Black mothers cradling their sons in poses echoing Michelangelo’s Pietà — a response to police violence.

Stranger Fruit: The Weight of Absence featuring the photographs of New York-based artist Jon Henry takes a poignant turn, exploring the transformation that occurs when a home loses a loved one—the very essence that imbued it with warmth and life. The photographs in this exhibition come from Henry’s series titled Stranger Fruit, which was created as a response to the senseless murders of Black men across the nation by police violence. The series features Black mothers cradling their sons, their poses echoing Michelangelo’s Pietà. While the mothers in Henry’s photographs haven’t directly experienced the loss of a son,