In my recent series, my mother plays the role of three women in one fictional Latin American home. These photographs can be read as portraits of my mother as her various selves — like a nested doll — and read as images that reveal the conflict of vanity, race and class that live within one woman, just as in one family.
In these photographs the three women, a pair of twin sisters, one lighter in skin color and a maid, are family and they hold both love and contempt for each other in equal measure, but they are also the love and contempt housed in one woman.
My fascination with identity of the self, and my personal relationship to my mother has moved me to make these photographs, an act that through photography and performance allows the real to bubble to the surface.
— Rachelle Mozman
Award winnerCasa de Mujeres
A fictional story of three women in one Latin American home (each played by the same woman) reveals the conflicts of vanity, race and class in society. Rachelle Mozman won Second Prize for this work in the Portfolio Category of the LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011.
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Award winner
Casa de Mujeres
A fictional story of three women in one Latin American home (each played by the same woman) reveals the conflicts of vanity, race and class in society. Rachelle Mozman won Second Prize for this work in the Portfolio Category of the LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011.
Casa de Mujeres
A fictional story of three women in one Latin American home (each played by the same woman) reveals the conflicts of vanity, race and class in society. Rachelle Mozman won Second Prize for this work in the Portfolio Category of the LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011.
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