YFTSITS | Sweat & Sugar Dinner

A communal meal and conversation centered around Belizean and Central American dishes. A communal meal of Belizean and Central American dishes that traces the histories of cultivation, migration, labor, and care behind the foods we love. Artists from YFTS,ITS join guests at the table, with guided prompts, storytelling, and a sonic environment by Tru. Space is limited to 25 participants. About the exhibition: Your Fruit Tastes Sweet, I Taste Sweat examines systems of labor, migration, extraction, memory, and care through the movement of Central American people, histories, materials, and traditions into Los Angeles. Tracing connections between Central America and the metropolitan landscape of Los Angeles, the exhibition considers how histories of agricultural labor, migration, colonial extraction, ecology, and cultural memory travel across borders and generations. This interdisciplinary exhibition looks particularly at how these systems become visible through the first-generation experience—via inherited memory, family histories, food, labor, cultural adaptation, and the ongoing negotiation between where one comes from and where one is building a life. The exhibition asks audiences to consider what is carried across generations, what is transformed through migration, and what histories remain hidden beneath the things we consume. This exhibit is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.