Maruch Méndez's "Three Women" painting is a vibrant tapestry of bold colors, featuring lush greens and earthy tones with intricate, geometric borders. The composition showcases women amidst a landscape filled with trees, animals, and towering mountains, embodying a harmonious coexistence with nature. The naive style and detailed patterning reflect Méndez's Chamula embroidery roots. This artwork is part of a series exploring connections between humans and earth deities, illustrating a narrative that highlights the importance of living in harmony with nature and reflects the artist's deep cosmological insights. ...
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). ...
