Spinello Projects: From His Rib Opening Reception

Reimagined biblical figures and Afro-Cuban deities bring questions of creation, gender and inherited authority into works by Amy Bravo and Elliot & Erick Jiménez. The opening reception for From His Rib takes place Tuesday, December 1 at Spinello Projects’ pop-up exhibition space in the Miami Design District during Miami Art Week. Painting, photography, sculpture and assemblage connect the artists’ Cuban heritage with personal histories and reinterpretations of sacred narratives.

The exhibition takes its title from Bravo’s reworking of Eve’s creation, in which a woman confronts the figure from whom she emerges. The Jiménez brothers’ Red Chapel explores the relationship between the Afro-Cuban orisha Changó and his Catholic counterpart, Saint Barbara. Together, the works consider how cultural inheritance can be preserved while its assumptions about power and belonging are challenged.

Miami-born identical twins Elliot and Erick Jiménez create photographs and installations informed by their upbringing in the Lucumí spiritual tradition. Their first solo museum exhibition, El Monte, was presented at Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2025–26. Their recognition also extends to editorial photography: in 2023, they photographed Bad Bunny for TIME’s first entirely Spanish-language cover.

New York-based Bravo, who is of Cuban and Italian descent, combines painting, drawing and found materials in works shaped by family stories, mythology and generational conflict. Her first institutional solo exhibition, Some Bullheaded Girls, opened at New York’s International Studio & Curatorial Program in 2025.