History and fiction in photography and video

Rachelle Mozman discusses the relations between history and fiction in photography and video based on her work.

Rachelle Mozman Solano grew up in New York City. Starting often from her biography and family history, Mozman explores how the intersection of history, power, and identity forms individual and collective experiences. Her work is concerned with the convergence of ideology, mythology, economics, and the psyche through photographs and films that explore narrative as inherent to the self and shaped by perception. Mozman’s art is deeply informed by her clinical work in psychoanalysis. In 2022, Mozman was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the 2022 Emerging Artist Grant, and the Colene Brown Art Prize. In 2021, Mozman had a solo exhibition of her film “All These Things I Carry With Me” at the South Bend Museum, IN. In 2020, Mozman released her monograph, “Colonial Echo,” with Kris Graves Projects. In 2019, Mozman had a solo exhibition, “Metamorphosis of Failure,” at Smack Mellon, NY. In 2019, Mozman was awarded an NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Mozman has been awarded an NYC Film and MediaGrant and the Jerome Foundation fellowship, and she has held residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, The Camera Club of New York, and Light Work. Her work has been published in the Light Work annual Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit magazine, and many others.