Guadalupe Rosales

In her multidisciplinary practice, Guadalupe Rosales explores senses of belonging and estrangement and collective and embodied experience. Combining community-oriented art with the medium of the archive, the artist continuously documents the Latinx experience in the US. In her archival projects – archived in Instagram accounts of the same names – ‘Veteranas and Rucas’ and ‘Map Pointz’, Rosales invited Chicano/Latinx ephemera to share personal images and stories, creating visual narratives and providing a platform for mis/underrepresented communities and youth in Southern California. At the same time, through sculpture, photography, sound, drawing and video, Rosales orchestrates sensory spaces of inclusion, inviting the audience to share in the experiences that the artist documents, be it the aural experience of cruising in East L.A. or a 1990s club filled with neon light and an altar honouring a victim of gang violence. Rosales’ powerful work directly interferes with the erasure of memory, generating a space of collective memory and healing. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities.