The poem “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol became a notorious song performed by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The gesture and interpretation of the great Lady Day anchored “Strange Fruit” in the history of jazz and music. But beyond that, the black and white notes of the song also find, plastically, a dull or crying resonance, in any case – cruelly – evocative.
Author: Virginie Ehonian
Found on visual arts and contemporary creation, particularly on the African continent... Virginie runs the blog "african links". First working with André Magnin, she became head of mission in the studio of the multidisciplinary artist Barthélémy Toguo. She lately started curating at Raw Material Company in Dakar before joining the team of 1:54 the first international contemporary African art fair, launched by Touria El Glaoui, for its two first editions in London. Between Art, History and Cooperation, her researches and interests revolve around the concept of African identity in contemporary art, the status of the African artist and the perception of black women in the French society.