Patricia Zambrano is a Queer Chicana artist, educator, and researcher whose work is attentive to community and forms of relation that are non-hegemonic/hierarchical. As a multimedia artist, her work in still and moving image, performance, and text dialogues with history, kinship, and intimacy, to imagine queer horizons of desire and liberation. Her's is a body of work that departs from rootedness in familial narratives that allow for a retelling of intimate histories and interrelation. Zambrano sees her practice as an intergenerational portal for relation to self, family, and place to offer counterstories that trace and archive histories of kinship through her gaze as an artist recuperating queer narratives.
Her work has been written about in the following essays: Jillian Hernandez, Beauty Marks: the Latinx Surfaces of Loving, Becoming & Mourning, 2018 in Women & Performance Amy Sara-Carroll, [The Fiction of a Doorframe]: Further Notes on Undocumentation, 2016 in Media Fields Journal |