Bailando Nuestros Problemas by Joan Jiménez “Entes” draws inspiration from the everyday life of Miami’s Little Havana community. The installation reflects the ways people gather—through conversation, dance, and shared stories—to build and sustain cultural life. Cut in iron as a tribute to Shango of the Yoruba pantheon, a figure closely tied to the spiritual and cultural heritage of the African diaspora in Latin America, the work transforms memory into a series of sculptural altars.

Through these forms, Jiménez reflects on both the joy and the challenges embedded in the migrant experience of Black and Brown communities across Latin America. He describes these moments as marroneo—collective choreographies of racialized bodies moving through and reclaiming public space. In Jiménez’s work, these gestures become acts of joy and resistance that honor cultural continuity and imagine new futures.

About the artist

Joan Jiménez “Entes” is a Peruvian artist living between Lima and Miami, whose work is rooted in the lived realities, memories, and cultural energies of the street, or barrio. A graduate of Escuela Superior De Bellas Artes Corriente Alterna in Plastic Arts, Jiménez’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and urban interventions. His work celebrates Latin American and Afro-descendant communities, reflecting on migration, collective resilience, and the emotional landscapes that define neighborhood life. For over twenty-five years, Jiménez has engaged the city as both a site of creation and a source of knowledge. His early practice in graffiti and muralism shaped his understanding of public space as a space of dialogue in an open arena where identity, belonging, and social tension become visible. In Lima, Peru, Jiménez has exhibited at the L’imaginaire Gallery, Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, Espacio Venancio Shinki and Circuito Mágico del Agua. 

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