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Hybrid Moments, Francis Robateau (2022)

Mango Man, Menyelek (2022)

Return Wild woman (eco-spiritual no. 5), Schessa Garbutt (2026)

Breakfast at Nanas House, Madelyn Inez (2025)

while on body sweats, another enjoys the fruit.

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Your Fruit Tastes Sweet, I Taste Sweat is a visual art exhibit centering first-generation Central-American artists raised in South Central Los Angeles. The work traces the intersections of labor, lineage, and migration—foregrounding the unseen work that sustains families and communities across borders.

Rooted in Afro-Latin/Afro-Indigenous traditions, the exhibition reflects on labor and migration. The title points to an essential truth: while one body sweats, another enjoys the fruit. This reality is carried in the histories of immigrant families, where women and men sustain households through relentless work, often at the cost of their own rest, health, or joy. Your Fruit Taste Sweet, I Taste Sweat is a space to honor these sacrifices and celebrate the resilience, ingenuity, and intergenerational memory that labor produces.

Exhibition

October 22nd - November 19th
Sovern LA

5757 W Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016

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Artist(s)

Astrid Kayembe (Artist)
Cheyann Washington (Artist)
Francis Robateau (Artist)
Madelyn Inez (Artist)
Menyelek (Artist)
Jahneli Leslie (Artist)
Schessa Garbutt (Artist)
Philip Patrick Harper Bucknor (Curator, Artist)

Education

Central America → Oral Traditions
South Central Los Angeles → Systems, Sound
Earth → Memory, Archives
(1997–ongoing)

Employment

Banana Plantations → 20th C.
Logging → Mahogany, Colonial Trade
Domestic Work → LA, South Central
Underground Economy → Culture, Social

Medium(s) / Practice(s)

Field Recordings / Oral History / Sonic Sculpture
Cooking as Archive / Plant Medicine / Collective Jam
Vinyl / Cassette / Digital Radio Broadcast
Performance / Improvisation / Storytelling

Activation(s)

Exhibition Program(s)

Opening Reception → October 22
Rooted Readings I → October 24
Rooted Readings II → November 7
Sweat & Sugar Dinner → November 8
Sweat Archive: Show & Tell → November 15
Closing Reception + Artist Talk → November 19

Remain(s)

Fruit shared → Community nourished
Sweat labored → Story carried
Lineage preserved → Memory archived
Sound → Document of survival

Press

“While one body sweats, another enjoys the fruit.”
Referenced across → Oral Histories, Jam Sessions, Radio Airwaves

While one body sweats, Another enjoys the fruit.

My Vanity is Barrel, Astrid Crystal Kayembe (2026)

Seeds Will, Cheyann Washington (2024)

The Work In Remaining: Mahogany River, Philip Patrick Harper Bucknor (2026)

The Mahogany Throne, Jahneli Leslie (2026)

while one body sweats, another enjoys the fruit.