María Fernanda Matos Moctezuma
Curator
Martha Pacheco translated the archaic fears of madness and death to the language of art. With morbid pleasure, she unprejudicedly delved into the confines of the psychiatric hospital and the morgue to record the lunatic’s isolation and the sinister vision of the corpse in her paintings.
From within the forbidden places she moved to the outdoors and recorded through her disturbing iconography the precarious life of windshield wipers, jugglers, clowns and other figures, thus depicting in the body of her work both the outside and the inside of a social reality that represents the aesthetic dissection of loneliness and abandonment.