“Entes”: Bailando Nuestros Problemas

ART INSTALLATION | MOCA | NORTH MIAMI | 2026

Bailando Nuestros Problemas by Joan Jiménez “Entes” draws inspiration from the everyday life of Miami’s Little Havana community. Miami Design Shop supported joan jimenez in the fabrication and installation process at museum of contemporary art (moca).

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.