ECHOES OF A COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Guadalupe Rosales. Archivist of Latin Culture
The Instagram account Veteranas and Rucas is a flashback to the 90s Latinx communities of Southern California. The pics, digital or digitalized, worn out by time, show in a casual way the social and intimate life of women whose adolescence passed by in the troubled SoCal of that decade. The more than 4,000 photographs make up the surprising archive built by Chicano artist Guadalupe Rosales (1980) through her own research, open calls and spontaneous collaborations. Something that began in 2015 as a way to connect with her family and culture has led to a growing and ambitious archive project of the SoCal Latino community of the 90’s (and 80’s, and even back), to which the Vincent Price Art Museum dedicates an exhibition under the title of «Echoes of a Collective Memory».
Guadalupe Rosales. Archivista de la Cultura Latina
La cuenta de Instagram Veteranas and Rucas es un flashback a las comunidades latinxs de Los Ángeles de los años 90. Las fotos, digitales o digitalizadas, de apariencia desgastada por el tiempo, muestran de manera casual la vida íntima y social de mujeres criadas en el Sur de California (o ‘SoCal’). Las más de 4.000 fotografías conforman el sorprendente archivo construido por Guadalupe Rosales (1980), artista chicana asentada en Los Ángeles, a partir de su propia investigación y de colaboraciones espontáneas o convocadas por ella misma en la red social.