The Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize Foundation presents STRANGE FRUIT, a group exhibition curated by Palesa Suthane for LATITUDES ART FAIR 2025. Strange Fruit is a visual protest against the quiet normalization of violence inflicted on women and children. It emerges from the growing collective disillusionment with justice systems that fail to protect, acknowledge, or repair the harm done—particularly in South Africa, where the statistics are staggering, but the public outcry too often muted. This exhibition confronts that disassociation: the societal numbness, the shrug of indifference, the silence that echoes louder than screams. Strange Fruit does not offer comfort—it offers a mirror, asking viewers to witness, to feel, and to stay present with discomfort. While rooted in the South African experience, this exhibition also reflects a global crisis—where the bodies of women and children are too often treated as collateral damage in systems of power, economy, and culture. By situating local artworks within a broader international dialogue, Strange Fruit refuses to isolate this violence as regional or exceptional. Instead, it traces shared patterns of silencing, erasure, and resistance across borders. Each work in this show resists being reduced to protest. These are not just testimonies of trauma—they are declarations of existence. They are healing rituals, love letters, mourning songs, and revolutionary dreams. Created by women, these works pulse with layered meanings, carrying grief and fury alongside tenderness and care. They ask us not just to witness the violence—but to reimagine what justice, visibility, and solidarity might look like. The exhibition will feature artworks b y Keabetswe Seema, Lerato Ntili, Dimpho Lehoko , Danna Margo Hall, Khanyisa Agnes Broncon , Olwethu de Vos and Thami Nonceba Danywa. An online catalogue of artworks will also be available for sale on the LATITUDES website. Proudly sponsored by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.