Patrícia Colmenero is a storyteller who thrives in the in-between—between places, disciplines, and ways of knowing. Like Cladosporium sphaerospermum, the black fungus that transforms radiation into energy, she metabolizes history, trauma, and displacement into art, scholarship, and cinema. Her work blurs the lines between theory and storytelling, weaving archival hauntings with lived experience—like a footnote that dreams or a film frame that remembers.

Rooted in Brazil and based in New York, she moves between filmmaking, literature, and visual arts, crafting narratives that insist on being seen. Whether directing fiction, excavating the ghosts of colonial pasts, or mapping memory through experimental forms, her practice is an act of endurance—of turning what lingers in the dark into something luminous.