Thick with haze, glare, and shadow, Elliot and Erick Jiménez make photographs that feel like visions. It’s no surprise, then, that Lucumí—the Afro-Caribbean tradition that took shape in Cuba through the entwining of Yoruba religion, Catholicism, and Spiritism—moves through their work as a way of seeing. Using light and texture, the identical twins show how faith can settle in the body and linger in memory long after belief, or the rupture of leaving, has passed.

Raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants, the Jiménez brothers return to the experience of being in two places at once: two bodies, one shared history, one artistic voice split across a pair of gazes. In their El Monte exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami, the pair’s experimental, in-camera techniques push photography toward painting and loosen images into something more atmospheric and spiritual. In that softened, hovering register, a figure can read as a stain of light and a landscape can flatten into a field of color, mirroring the brothers’ ongoing fixation on doubleness and on what it means to belong to more than one place.

Editor’s Note: Elliot and Erick Jiménez’s El Monte is showing at Pérez Art Museum Miami until March 22, 2026.