Titus Kaphar: Exhibiting Forgiveness
This book accompanies Exhibiting Forgiveness (2023), a feature film written, directed, and produced by Titus Kaphar. The film and fifteen paintings made for it by the artist are the focus of an exhibition organized at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, in 2024. Exhibiting Forgiveness stars André Holland as Tarrell Rodin, an accomplished painter whose life is upended by an unexpected reunion with his father, La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), a recovering addict who has been absent for Tarrell’s adult life. Haunted by La’Ron’s negligence and abusiveness when he was a boy, the protagonist struggles with coming to terms with the past and his father’s reemergence. Integral to the film, the paintings made by Kaphar play a central role in defining its narrative and symbolism.
The publication presents a draft of the script with marked-up lines, notes, and deleted scenes, juxtaposed with over 250 stills and photographs of the paintings. As such, it provides a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Exhibiting Forgiveness from script to screen and offers insights into Kaphar’s practice as a filmmaker and painter.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2024
Contributor: Titus Kaphar
Designer: Graphic Thought Facility, London
Printer: Pureprint Group, Uckfield, England
Distributor: Rizzoli International Publications, New York
Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 9 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (24.8 × 29.8 cm)
Pages: 268
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3932-2
