I'm Never Alone
I’m Never Alone, Golden’s debut solo exhibition curated by Golden & Morgan Golden, maps the artist’s connection to Black aliveness through their ecosystem of chosen & blood family over the past 60 years. This multi-medium installation brings together the fabrics of Golden’s award-winning self-portraiture series On Learning How to Live and their debut poetry collection A Dead Name That Learned How to Live. Exploring the languages of self & collaborative portraiture, family photo albums, sibling-made sculptures & fashions, visual odes & poetics, and the architecture of Black homemaking.
By elevating the mundane, the human matter, and our makers, this exhibition highlights the tension between home & history, friend & family, audience & company. Shrinking the miles & years between Hampton, Virginia, Pocomoke City, Maryland, and Boston, Massachusetts to showcase that Black queer life has always been here. Forebearer to our own nations, foraging our own forgiveness, finding freedom inside & outside the home.
The library, curated my high school best friend Dana Jones.
Left to right: "O womb warrior" featuring Simone and Chanelle John next to their Grammy's lamp.
"I'm never alone" featuring bashexo and Kamaria Weemz next to bashexo's Mom's rolling pin and family items.
Works in this exhibition were made in collaboration with bashexo, Julissa Emile, Cameron Golden, Edison Golden, Morgan Golden, Stephanie Golden, Tilden Golden, Chanelle John, Simone John, Dana Jones, Zenaida Peterson, Cassandra Queen, Charline Xu, and Kamaria Weemz.
Support for the creation of works in this exhibition has been generously provided by the City of Boston, the Collective Futures Fund, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mass Cultural Council, and Women Photograph
