Rachelle Mozman Solano grew up in New York City of parents who shared the experience of immigration. Starting often from her biography and family history Mozman Solano explores how culture shapes individuals, how environment conditions behavior. Her work is concerned with the intersection of mythology, history, economics, and the psyche through photographs and films that confound fact and fictional narrative. In her work narrative is explored as inherent to our humanity and shaped by perception. Mozman Solano’s art is deeply informed by her clinical work in psychoanalysis.

In Colonial Echo, two series are brought together as chapters with texts that are excerpted interviews written in the format of a screenplay. The first chapter includes images from ‘Casa de Mujeres’;’La Negra’ appears in the second chapter and represents the artist’s grandmother whose nickname was La Negrashowing her immigration to the United States with her younger daughter and the conflict in attempting to assimilate to a new culture, where the history of color and the distinction in class, transforms their identity.