I am Patrícia Belo, a Brazilian artist, designer, and founder of Midnight Castanhas. My practice translates inner landscapes shaped by displacement, ancestry, and introspection.

After moving to Germany, a constant state of melancholy led me to search for tools to understand what I was going through. During long, late nights, art, poetry, and cashews (Castanhas in Portuguese) saved me, showing me I was not alone in my suffering, and that there is a lot of dignity in it. This journey led me to explore my roots through African traditions and Indigenous Brazilian cosmologies, engaging with unseen dimensions of identity.

Working across painting and writing, I explore duality, vulnerability, and transformation, often through black, white, and subtle accents of color. My work invites reflection and offers an alchemical space where pain can be transformed into meaning.

I connect with themes of the unconscious and with silent subtleties. I seek to create subjective impacts that lead people to question and deepen their knowledge of themselves. I appreciate silence as much as music. Universal mythologies open my eyes to the collective unconscious. I am interested in philosophy and psychology because I understand that no one gets lost alone. Poetry is the voice of my heart. I am nonconformist with the oppressive system that crushes nature, and all this means being me.