Artist Meet and Greet: Elliot and Erick Jiménez

Pérez Art Museum Miami hosts an evening with artists Elliot and Erick Jiménez, identical twin photographers whose work explores Lucumí spirituality, Afro-Caribbean traditions and the intersections of Western art history. From 7 to 8 p.m., guests can meet the artists in celebration of their first solo museum exhibition, El Monte.

The exhibition showcases a new body of work inspired by Lydia Cabrera’s seminal text El Monte and the brothers’ bicultural upbringing as Cuban Americans raised in the Lucumí tradition. Photographs and sculptural elements surround a central installation resembling both a chapel and a forest, a space where themes of spirituality, mystery and transformation converge.

After the meet and greet, the evening continues on PAMM’s waterfront terrace with Capicu! NYC from 8 to 11 p.m., featuring DJ Lluvia, FKi 1st and special guests, along with dominoes and drinks.

Born in Miami in 1989, Elliot and Erick Jiménez are first-generation Cuban Americans now based between New York and Miami. Their multidisciplinary practice blends photography, painting and sculpture, drawing from Yoruba cosmology, Catholic syncretism and mythology to reinterpret spirituality within the Western art canon. Their work has been presented at institutions including the Bass Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Orlando Museum of Art, and is part of the permanent collections of PAMM and other museums. They have received fellowships and awards from the CINTAS Foundation, South Arts, Oolite Arts and CHANEL/Tribeca, and in 2023 were commissioned to photograph Bad Bunny for TIME’s first-ever all-Spanish cover.