Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte
On view through March 22, 2026
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Miami, Florida
www.pamm.org
“Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte” is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist duo Elliot & Erick Jiménez. The photographers, identical twin brothers, present an entirely new body of work inspired by the spiritual tradition of Lucumí—a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion that emerged in late nineteenth-century Cuba bringing together elements of Yoruba, Catholicism, and Spiritism—and by Lydia Cabrera’s seminal text El Monte. First published in Cuba in 1954, El Monte is a foundational study of Afro-Cuban religions that was translated into English for the first time in 2023, significantly broadening access to its insights on Caribbean spiritual practices. This exhibition highlights the Jiménez twins’ bicultural upbringing as Cuban Americans raised in the Lucumí tradition.
Find out more here: https://www.pamm.org/…/elliot-and-erick-jimenez-el-monte/
[Image: Elliot & Erick. El Monte (Ibejí), 2024. Archival pigment print.]
