About the artist

Mundana —Jairo Geovany Mena Herrera— is an Ecuadorian visual artist. Was born in Ibarra in 1987, where he was strongly influenced by classical and indigenous drawing and painting. His work processes his multicultural roots, his education, as well as his learning experiences. Driven by a passionate interest in telling stories, and inspired by social struggles, ancestral saberes, and popular knowledge, his compositions seek to open a dialogue around human rights issues, historical considerations, and diverse memories, as a starting point for reflection on our differences and live with them, for mutual learning. At the same time, Mundana develops digital projects, with the firm intention of creating works of contextual design, crossed by memory. ​ His close relationship with public painting led him to found the contemporary mural project Numu, which places him in the world of cultural management.