Karla Solano, from Costa Rica, has consistently worked with photography throughout her career. Until very recently, in Costa Rica this medium was limited to traditional works, however, Solano together with a young generation of artists is challenging the art scene of Costa Rica. The territory in Karla Solano's work is the human body, particularly her own. For a long period she used x-rays as a means of metaphorically analyzing her own self. In later works, as her body underwent changes due to maternity, a superimposition of x-rays with photographic prints as self portraits resulted in more dramatic images, as in 'Under my Skin', a segmented woman whose breasts and womb were strangely segregated from the head.

Virtually 'exposing' herself in a society that has come to reject nudity as natural, Karla Solano has concentrated in the detailed examination of her physical self as a subject of analysis and a reflection of time.

Virginia Pérez Rattón

Independent Curator

Costa Rica