In the Mouth of the Jaguar / Artier Fine Art Gallery / Palm Springs
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In the Mouth of the Jaguar: Myths Reimagined
Artier Fine Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
February 20 - April 12, 2026
Featuring work by: Brigitte Briones, Guillermo Bert, Dionisio Ceballos, Luigi Fantini, Natasha Gray, Matthew Hance, Carlos Luna James, César Jiménez, Johnny López, Ender Martos, Dario Oritz, Moises Ortiz, Miguel Osuna, Robert Palacios, Ariel Vargassal
“In the Mouth of the Jaguar” is an exhibition that emerges from the collective subconscious of Latin America—an artistic descent into the mythic, the ancestral, and the speculative. Centering the enduring power of Indigenous and pre-Columbian mythologies, this exhibition invites Latin American artists to reimagine ancient stories through a contemporary lens, drawing connections between the cosmologies of the past and the urgencies of the present.
The jaguar—guardian, predator, shapeshifter—is a central symbol across numerous cultures from the Amazon to Mesoamerica. It is a creature that crosses boundaries: between life and death, nature and spirit, past and future. As a metaphor, the jaguar's mouth is both an entry point and a crucible: a place of transformation.
Artists participating in this exhibition enter this space of mythic re-creation not to reproduce heritage as fixed iconography, but to challenge and animate it. They reconfigure gods and monsters as climate warriors, border crossers, queer bodies, and digital avatars. Through their work, they echo oral traditions, spiritual cosmologies, and resistance narratives, offering visual and sonic portals into an ever-evolving mythology.
This is not a return to roots—it is a remix, a resistance, a prophecy.
