Directed by Titus Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness follows Andre Holland as Tarrell, an admired American painter who lives with his wife, singer Aisha, played by Andra Day, and their young son, Jermaine.

Tarrell’s artwork excavates beauty from the anguish of his youth, keeping past wounds at bay. His path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, La’Ron, played by John Earl Jelks, a conscience-stricken man desperate to reconcile.

Tarrell’s mother, Joyce, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, a pious woman with a profound and joyful spirituality, hopes that Tarrell can open his heart to forgiveness, giving them all another chance at being a family. In this raw and profoundly moving film, Tarrell and La’Ron learn that forgetting might be a more significant challenge than forgiving.

From Kaphar’s website:

Titus Kaphar is an artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations examine the history of representation by transforming its styles and mediums with formal innovations to emphasize the physicality and dimensionality of the canvas and materials themselves. His practice seeks to dislodge history from its status as the “past” in order to unearth its contemporary relevance. He cuts, crumples, shrouds, shreds, stitches, tars, twists, binds, erases, breaks, tears, and turns the paintings and sculptures he creates, reconfiguring them into works that reveal unspoken truths about the nature of history.