Hermès presents Lo que nos llama, an ephemeral installation by Clotilde Jiménez inspired by Venture Beyond, the house´s annual theme. Across three windows, the artist unfolds a narrative in three acts —the call, the preparation and the arrival— exploring the impulse to follow a signal toward the unknown.
Drawing on his collage-based artistic practice, Jiménez layers materials, objects and references to create scenes in which the everyday shifts into the realm of the imaginary. Throughout this journey, travel is not only geographical; it also becomes an inner transformation guided by curiosity, wonder and desire.
In The Call, a child listens to the distant murmur of the sea through a seashell, although he is surrounded by prickly pear cacti and far from the coast. This impossible sound introduces the first signal: the intuition that something, somewhere, is calling to him. Around him, Hermès Twillys take on a new nature, becoming prickly pears and weaving silk into the landscape imagined by Jiménez. Before setting out, a single signal is enough to imagine a new horizon.
In The Preparation, that intuition becomes movement. The traveler gathers objects, memories and signs of what he will carry with him. A motorcycle, conceived as a kind of metal horse, embodies the impulse to move forward, while the map points toward a territory yet to be discovered. Hermès equestrian objects —jumping boots, a helmet, a saddle and a saddle pad— stand ready for the journey, alongside a Haut à Courroies ready to hold everything that will accompany the traveler. Preparing is already a way of setting out: desire finds direction and the journey begins to take shape.
In The Arrival, the outward journey gives way to a more intimate encounter: with memory, with the unknown and with a different version of oneself. Objects from the Hermès universe inhabit Jiménez’s imagined landscape, while an oversized suspended arm holds a Mini Médor. A flow of water, evoked through silk cut-outs, carries a Samarcande, a Lao paperweight and ashtrays with equestrian motifs, creating a fluid composition in which the objects seem to drift between the real and the imaginary. What began as a distant signal becomes a present experience, capable of transforming the way one sees and inhabits the world.
Through the windows of Hermès Molière, the installation thus creates a territory of exploration, where each object becomes a clue and each image a possibility.
The installation will be on view at Hermès Molière, El Palacio de Hierro Polanco, Mexico City, from September 22, 2026 to January 11, 2027.
