New work by Kim Ye will be included in Radical Kinship, a group exhibition curated by Chloë Flores, at the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles from May 16 to August 2, 2026. The exhibition brings together eight contemporary artists whose works examine kinship, care, interdependence, and collective survival through feminist, queer, and Indigenous perspectives. Participating artists include:
Kim Ye | Patty Chang | taisha paggett | Kimberly Robertson
Corazón del Sol | Emily Marchand | Kiyo Gutiérrez | Sharon Chohi Kim
The works included in the exhibition insist that how we relate — across bodies, cultures, generations, and species — matters more than ever. Central to the exhibition is the artist’s refusal of separability: a commitment to relationality, embodiment, and mutual care as generative forces that challenge dominant paradigms of power and production. Kin-making is thus a political act. It asks, how can we hold each other in ways that refuse domination? And what forms of kinship might sustain us into uncertain futures?
At the heart of Radical Kinship is the understanding that care is not always visible, celebrated, or institutionally supported. It often emerges from necessity and community, taking place quietly through informal labor and forms of attention that hold one another up. Kim Ye’s documentary film The Sex Workers’ Guide to Parenting reflects this precisely.
It documents how sex worker parents create networks of care and stability for their children while navigating systems that criminalize or erase them. Ye’s work reveals kinship as a radical act of self-definition and mutual survival. Her 30-minute film loops on a boxy television within a retro living room mise-en-scène, complete with a couch, side table, and plants. The installation, titled It’s not a whore house, it’s a whore home, extends the film’s visual aesthetic into physical space, inviting viewers to step into the work as an embodied and spatial experience. Personal objects loaned by parents featured in the film are woven into the installation, carrying their presence into the gallery and grounding the work in the material realities of care and home. Displayed on the side table, the first volume of ProMomme—a collaborative zine Ye produced with Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles—further amplifies the voices of sex worker parents navigating criminalization, economic precarity, and social invisibility.
Read the full curatorial statement and find the schedule for exhibition programming–including performances, workshops, and a forthcoming community presentation and Q&A for Ye’s Sex Workers’ Guide to Parenting--at the Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW) website. FCCW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting women, trans, and nonbinary artists and writers through exhibitions, publications, workshops, residencies, and public programs.