Art With Me 2019 — Living Heritage, Live Exchange

We brought together six master artists from Indigenous communities across southern Mexico and turned Art With Me into a living studio. Not a showcase. A real exchange. Works on view, hands at work, voices in dialogue. For many, it was the first time sharing their techniques publicly in Tulum. We handled curation, production, and cultural mediation so the craft spoke for itself. The result: a room full of learning and honest connection where tradition met a new audience without losing its roots.

WE THE CREATORS

Between the imaginary and the real, a game of words that make us dialogue and decolonize our minds. Among the Mesoamerican people we see the presence of the mythical beings who are the protectors of nature, the protective beings of life, who, in con…

Of tzotzil Maya origin, he has specialized in the exact sciences, but he also has knowledge in architecture and masonry. This has given him a need to express his feeling about the universe that composes his reality, where through sculpture he has fo…

We all know her as Maruch, she has profound roots that had been nourished by wisdom and ancestral knowledge linked to healing. In her community they call her "j'ilol" healer and religious authority, she has learned traditional tzotzil activities thr…

Jun Tiburcio revives the historical memory of his community by using traditional and mixed techniques, to engage in a dialogue with the audience about birth, death, fauna, flora, by naming them from his mother tongue, Tutunaku telling his story and …

He was born in Uayma, Yucatan. He descends from a mayan potters family, that has been using ancestral techniques for generations, as well as experimental techniques by integrating different kinds of muds and diverse mineral substances from the regio…

Magic beings in sacred spaces, her art shows the colors of the earth and the creative process of a woman, who rescues the oral tradition and knowledge of her people through myths, legends, and customs that are the inheritance of her grandparents as …

She is one of the very few women who rescues an ancient technique of Native Maya Cotton Yarn called "Pechech" in the Yucatan Peninsula; it seeks to promote the revaluation of native cotton yarn among women and girls in the Mayan Zone, to avoid the l…

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THE CHILEAN

His work is related to nature, especially landscape.Through painting, he is interested in addressing indefinite, imprecise natural spaces, impossible to locate on the map.Generally, these spaces are framed within a particular time: night.From the my…

Matias Santa Maria

Painter, draft man, illustrator, muralist and goldsmith.She was a student of the Chilean National Art Prize Eugenio Dittborn.Her work seeks the union of the world in which we inhabit with the intangible and surreal through characters, animals and un…

Jacinta Kaiser

His work is based on an exploration of the contrast of human and nature.Making a synthesis of his experiences, he rescue the things that most appeal to him in landscape and try to generate a pictorical language where the viewer can see the same thin…

Michael Yaikel

Her work is based on the contemplation and exploration of different channels that landscapes offer to connect with universe and our inner selves. Her painting, be they natural, architectural or abstract themes, come from experiences and visions, bot…

Javiera Da Fonseca

THE LONGEST MURAL EVER MADE IN TULUM

One of our favorites things in AWM 2019 was the cemetery walls we painted in collaboration with Sanez Crack , Javiera da Fonseca, Jacinta Kaiser, Matias Santamaria and Michel Yikel.

In total there were 200 mts that were covered with dias de los muertos motif. Check it out next time your visit Tulum. Click here to locate it in maps