Maruch Méndez took up contemporary visual art upon joining the MUY artists’ community almost a decade ago. With a legendary background in Chamula embroidery, shepherding, adoptive parenthood, traditional prayer and curing, and now religious cargo-holder with deep historic-cosmological knowledge, Maruch’s paintings have been singled out in national and international museum shows in recent years. In Material Art Fair, Méndez presents a series of monotype painted engravings, based on interactions between humans and earth deities in quasi-historical narratives directing us to proper action and Maya eudaimonia (good life).

Maruch Méndez

Three women

The cornfield

Oy jun vinik bat ta camposanto (The man who went to the cemetery)