Health and the healer | Kayúm Ma’ax

Name: Health and the healer | Kayúm Ma’ax
SKU: 11007
Price: 45000.00 MXN
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$45,000.00

Acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm
2018

“The Maya culture healed through prayers. They healed through secrets. They didn’t know about medicines or herbs. Now, the traditional healer (Tzeltal) cleanses, but they also worship their own god; that’s why I painted the temple. The Tzeltales know about herbs (look at the man carrying the incense burner). Nowadays, the Lacandon Maya person goes to a doctor when they get sick. They heal with medicines, antibiotics.” – Kayúm Ma’ax

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Kayúm Ma’ax, Maya/Lacandón artist, was born in Naha, Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1962. A self-taught artist awarded the Chiapas Prize in 1992. He paints with an eye trained since birth in the jungle environment, and an unprecedented narrative ability informed by the worldview and local history of Nahá (a population of 250 people) that has only been “open to the world” for about 50 years. Learn more.