Rachelle Mozman Solano

Rachelle Mozman Solano is an artist and psychoanalyst who makes work between New York
City and Panama. Her work mines, re interprets and subverts ethnographic traditions within
film and photography. Through her art Mozman probes the origins of these mediums and their
relationship to history, class and race. Her work addresses the space where ideology,
mythology, economics and the psyche converge within film and photographic storytelling. Her
recent photographs, Venas Abiertas, gives voice to the complex, continuously transforming, and
at times painful story of US, Latin American relations, particularly on the border and Central
America. The images reference and are titled after texts from varied sources and different
periods in history. In her film work Opaque Mirror, and photographic work, Cast of Women,
Mozman re–interprets Paul Gauguin’s work in Tahiti and imagines the work he may have made
in Panama before Tahiti. Mozman has made work based on the oral stories told to her of the
women in her family in Panama as a consequence of colonialism in Casa de Mujeres and the
experience of immigration in La Negra. Ultimately Mozman’s art makes visible experiences that
have been historically invisible while re–examining and re–interpreting our collective stories.

California marks the limit of geographical progress of civilization

pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2022

We have to contend with an alien race, one with a different language, different customs, different moral standards and different diseases", from the Journal of American Medical Association

1926, pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2020

When a woman falls in love with a banana de sangre puro

pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2020

am not going to tell you that (Mexicans) are the best people on the face of the earth,or that they will have made wonderful citizens...” Testimony in House Committee on Immigration, 1928,

pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2021

Mozman-Solano---The way down is hard. Slabs of stone, slippery with moss, are set into the vertiginous cliff, and it is down this cliff that one begins the descent to the bodies or what is left of the bodes

pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2021

I am a federal officer, I hear that two Chinamen have come across from Mexico and are headed for Tucson, on foot

pigment print, 28x32 inches, 2021