Guadalupe Rosales | Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo

In Guadalupe Rosales | Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo, Los Angeles-based artist, archivist, and activist, Guadalupe Rosales, explores the complexities of memory, time, and documentation within Chicano youth subcultures of 1990s Los Angeles. In a politically charged time in which major institutions developed one-sided/criminalized narratives, Guadalupe collects and creates work to tell stories from communities dropped out of this official mainstream narrative. “I am not the gatekeeper,” she says, “but a part of the community and history. I am learning from it too…”

Through an expansive personal archive of photographs, flyers, and magazines alongside artistic works of sculpture, photography, sound, and video, her work spins together her own memories with other voices, documenting and activating collective memories. In doing so, the archive materializes memory and ensures that these/our stories are documented and transmitted. Guadalupe challenges the linearity of time, convoking hybridity and queerness in a web, or tzahualli, of memories.