Guadalupe Rosales presents a solo exhibition titled "Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo" at the Palm Springs Art Museum, centered on a checkerboard dance floor with a makeshift DJ booth, motorized blue spotlights, and mirrored disco fixtures. The show gathers ephemera from the 1990s—magazines, snapshots, lowrider bicycle parts, bandannas, street signs, and more—used in assemblage sculptures and display cases. Four thematic sections include a dance room, an entryway, a nighttime space, and a car culture gallery, with imagery referencing Chicana culture, Los Angeles' Eastside, and historic clubs like Arena and Circus.
The exhibition matters because it reframes formative cultural experiences from the 1990s through a Chicana lens, elevating DIY aesthetics and social optimism into a museum context. By juxtaposing joyful club memories with symbols of loss and entrapment—such as a roadside shrine and a wrought iron gate suggesting prison bars—Rosales prompts reflection on pleasure, freedom, and community in an era of political division. The show underscores the value of preserving marginalized histories and the role of art in reclaiming public joy.