Sol Moreno
Bio
Sol Moreno is a Panamanian visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the ugly, the grotesque, the magical and the wild as ways to resist social norms.
Sol studied documental cinema in UAB (Barcelona). She directed the feature Diablo Rojo PTY (2019), shown in over 25 countries, and the short film Una langosta llamada Deseo (2025) which is just beginning its festival circuit. In 2021, Sol founded Mala Sombra Intl, an artist-run space for graphics and counterculture, and created the zine archive Una Fanzinoteca en el Trópico.
Among her individual exhibitions, La melancolía de Mala Sombra (2021), Corpo Santo (2022) and Horror Tropical (Mexico City, 2024) reaffirm her link to intense visual narratives and symbolic territories that clash.
She currently directs the Panama Horror Film Fest, illustrates houses in flames and develops Mala Sombra Press, which is dedicated to home-produced fanzines. Besides, she plays the bass and screams in lo-fi garage and synth punk bands.
Statement
I'm an eternal child raised by a television, affronting her adulthood with nostalgia for those images and with fear to this techno-capitalist world. Permanently seeking another world to fit into.
I began to make movies to tell my stories and fears. My thing are images, but I found in working with my hands something that mellowed my anxiety and new, more personal ways of narrating my dreams. So I began exploring with mediums to keep on showing my thoughts and nightmares.
My work is influenced by monstruosity and otherness. I depict them with materials and mediums like ceramic, paper, films, thread, fabric, video, and others as ethereal as sound.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
