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In 2023, the BAMPFA held a retrospective of Amalia Mesa Bains’s work entitled Archaeology of Memory. Mesa-Bains covers fifty years of her cultural and artistic creation which includes books, paintings, home altars, offerings to the dead and home yard shrines. The collection of her works at this exhibit reflect on her contributions to aesthetic Chicanx/Latinx art. Mesa Bains displays her family’s history objects as the foundation to her style of art telling. Her exhibit contributes an important part of Chicanx art in U.S history. Amalia Mesa Bains Archaeology of Memory explores family history and how important it is to remember because it is easy to be eased because of patriarchal and Eurocentric culture.