Feminist Center for Creative Work Presents 

Yves B. Golden’s The Burden

Curated by Seta Morton

September 28, 2024–November 16, 2024

Opening Saturday, September 28, 5–7PM 

@ The Pit: 3015 Dolores St., LA 90065

Feminist Center for Creative Work is thrilled to announce the opening of our latest Artist In Residence exhibit — a collection of sculptural works, a text, and programs by Yves B. Golden, curated by Seta Morton. The exhibit, Golden’s first solo exhibition of sculptures, addresses the imperative to fight for humanity and dignity, amidst the violence of Western imperialism in our everyday lives. 

“The show’s title is rooted in the negro spiritual “Down by the Riverside” — fitting for Golden’s work, which both attends and surrenders to the fluidity of water, and through this show, demands demilitarization,” writes Morton. “Golden has built an armory of all things glass, granular, and fragile. She is rendering weapons — gold bricks, daggers, and swords — out of a temperamental and fragile material.” The exhibit invokes the Book of Isaiah: “and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” 

Through the exhibition, Golden and Morton invite audiences to engage with these questions: How do we understand and reclaim our human rights (or the human rights of others) in the wake of war? Is global disarmament achievable without a universal understanding of dignity?

“While conceptualizing this show…overlapping humanitarian crises and genocides have intensified with the aid of American tax dollars,” writes Golden. “As artists, we are tasked with holding the truth close and refracting it back on our society to prompt discussion and, ideally, to lubricate cultural shifts which our societal continuity depends on.”

Golden and Morton’s work and practices represent a brilliant example of the rigorous, intersectional feminist art that FCCW will continue to support, now in our new home. This will be the 18th project of the Artist in Residence program, which presents new, multidisciplinary work by women, trans, and nonbinary artists. During the three-month residency, artists work on larger-scale projects that culminate in an exhibition and a series of programs that provide insight into their process and influences. Additionally, the residency results in a forthcoming publication that extends the impact of the project: The Burden, the book, will be available for purchase.

Please find bios and a schedule for events below, and learn more on our website. For further information on the show or to interview Yves. B Golden & Seta Morton, contact Kamala Puligandla, FCCW Director of Communications, at kamala@fccwla.org.

SCHEDULE OF PROGRAMMING

Exhibit Open Hours @ The Pit:

Tuesdays–Saturdays, September 24 through October 31, 11AM–5PM 

Exhibit Open Hours @ the new FCCW:

Wednesdays–Saturdays, November 2 through November 16, 11AM–5PM 

Exhibition Opening: Yves B. Golden’s The Burden 

Saturday, September 28, 2024

5–7PM

The Pit: 3015 Dolores St. Los Angeles, CA 90065

Celebrate the opening of Artist in Residence Yves B. Golden’s project The Burden, curated by Seta Morton. Come see the exhibit, and see other work on view at The Pit.

Artist Talk with Yves B. Golden, Cedric Mitchell & Gogo Graham

Saturday, October 5, 2024 

6-8 PM

The Pit: 3015 Dolores St. Los Angeles, CA 90065

Join us at The Pit for a conversation with our artist in residence and collaborators about the relationships and processes behind the works in the exhibit.

FCCW Exhibition Opening + The Burden Book Celebration 

Saturday, November 2, 2024

10AM-6PM

FCCW’s new home: 3053 Rosslyn St. Los Angeles, CA 90065

See the second iteration of The Burden exhibit at the new Feminist Center for Creative Work and celebrate the show’s publication, The Burden, the book. Join us for a DJ set by St. Mozelle & friends on our patio from 3–6PM — all in conjunction with LARB’s LitLit @ The Pit and across our campus.