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Saúl Kak's painting "Hurricane Eta" is a vibrant composition dominated by aquamarines and blues, with contrasting elements like lightning and clouds adding dynamic tension. A central figure emerges, holding a body of water, symbolizing themes of nature and territorial identity. The style is expressionistic, utilizing fluid lines and vivid colors to evoke emotional intensity. Kak draws from his ancestral Zoque narratives, reflecting on the flooding of Zoque land for the Chicoasén dam in 1974, using art to highlight cultural and environmental resilience. ...
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Saúl Kak - filmmaker, experimenter in audio and digital art and inveterate and passionate painter, scours the narratives told to him by his tradition-imbued parents to give form and power to his people’s territorial claims and defense. In the series shown at Material Art Fair, Kak’s play of aquamarines (there is one word in Zoque covering blue-green on the spectrum) reflects the fact that part of Zoque territory was immersed in water when commandeered for making the Chicoasén dam in 1974. ...