Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte T-Shirt

Step into mystery and spirit with the Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte T-Shirt, created in collaboration with Pérez Art Museum Miami for the artist twins’ first solo museum exhibition, El Monte. This sleek black tee features a pair of luminous, watchful eyes—an iconic symbol in Elliot & Erick Jiménez’s work. Known for their haunting shadow figures, the twins often obscure identities so that only the eyes shine through, transforming a simple gaze into something ancestral, spiritual, and charged with meaning. In their practice, the eyes become portals—bridges between seen and unseen worlds, evoking the Lucumí cosmology and Caribbean mythologies that inspire El Monte.

The exhibition itself transforms PAMM’s galleries into a sacred forest-chapel, where ritual, memory, and ancestry converge under the towering presence of a Ceiba tree. This shirt extends that vision into everyday life: wearable art that carries the same sense of presence, mystery, and power. Beyond its symbolism, the El Monte T-Shirt is designed for durability and comfort. Made with heavy-weight, 6.5 oz 100% combed cotton (with 15% viscose in marles), it offers a regular fit with neck ribbing, side seaming, shoulder-to-shoulder taping, and double-needle hems. It’s preshrunk to minimize shrinkage and built to last through countless wears. The shirt is easy to care for: machine wash cold with like colors, line dry in shade, and avoid bleach, tumble dry, or ironing on the print to preserve its detail.

The Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte T-Shirt is more than apparel—it’s a statement of duality, ritual, and the unseen energies that live among us. Whether you wear it into the museum, on the street, or in your own quiet space, this tee invites you to embody the gaze, carry the spirit, and move with mystery.

Claim your piece of El Monte. Wear the gaze. Carry the legacy.

Details 

• Regular Fit
• Material: Heavy weight, 6.5 oz, 22-singles, 100% combed cotton (marles 15% viscose)
• Construction:
  -Neck ribbing
  - Side seamed
  - Shoulder to shoulder tape
  - Double needle hems
  - Preshrunk to minimise shrinkage
• Machine wash cold with like colours.
• Do not bleach.
• Do not tumble dry.
• Do not dry clean.
• Line dry in shade.
• Embroidered Locally