Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte

It is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist duo. 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.

This exhibition highlights the Jiménez twins’ bicultural upbringing as Cuban Americans raised in the Lucumí tradition.

At the center of the exhibition is a large structure that dominates the gallery space, its interior evoking both a chapel and a forest. Various works explore the artists’ relationship as identical twins, the structure itself symbolizing the shared space of the womb.

For more information, visit: https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/elliot-and-erick-jimenez-el-monte/