The painting "Our Roots" by Maruch Méndez features a vibrant composition with a central figure holding a guitar against a bright blue background, surrounded by symbolic imagery including red and orange shapes and a pig. The style is bold and simplistic, employing flat colors and whimsical forms. These elements interweave human and earthly motifs, reflecting connections to traditional Chamula culture. Méndez's work captures interactions with earth deities, aiming to convey narratives of proper action and harmonious living, rooted in Maya cosmology. ...
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). ...
