A Conversation with ... Hugo Canuto
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The interview “A Conversation with … Hugo Canuto” features a discussion between Ute Fendler and Adebanjo Baderin with Brazilian comic artist Hugo Canuto, who visited the University of Bayreuth in mid-May 2025 to participate in the workshop “From Oblivion to Memory: Transatlantic Memorial Echoes.”
During the conversation, Hugo Canuto reflects on the role of comics and visual storytelling in preserving cultural memory and reimagining historical narratives. Drawing on Afro-Brazilian mythology, history, and popular culture, he explains how the graphic novel medium allows him to revisit marginalized histories and highlight connections between Africa and the Afro-diasporic world. Canuto also discusses his creative process, emphasizing the importance of visual symbolism, mythology, and narrative experimentation in his work.
Find out more about the project "Black Atlantic Revisted" at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence hier: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_2-Research/Research-Projects/Arts-and-Aesthetics/Black-Atlantic-revisited/May-Exhibition/index.html
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- A Conversation with ... Hugo Canuto
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- English
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- A Conversation with ...
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- March 2, 2026
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- Well, good afternoon. It's a real pleasure to have you here with us in Void. It's a excellence cluster Africa multiple. Welcome to BIO. And we have a chance to talk with you today about your fantastic artwork. Maybe we can just show it a little bit or fum and gto the stories of the oishas that we will talk about and much more. So maybe to start with um could you introduce yourself a bit and talk tell us more about your your career? >> Sure the trajectory. First of all, I want to thank you for the invitation and the interview uh in the Bhart University. Uh I'm a comic book author, visual artists and and screenwriter. Uh I started uh 11 years ago. My original area is is from the architecture. But uh comic book had always been a passion in my life. Since I was a kid, I was fascinated for OT's for OT's pictures and and and colors and stories of uh of sci sci-fi or fantasy or superheroes. it's uh shaped my imagination uh and I always wished to make my work as an artist at least as a comic book artist uh connects with our culture in Brazil connects with our culture in Baya my hometown. I would like to bring uh some characteristics, some uh aesthetical or narratives uh from my my culture to my artwork has a book out. Then uh a few years ago, seven, eight years ago, I started the the Tales of the Rishious uh uh comic book series. And that was a path uh where I found an expression to represent all this this uh aspirations of representation. uh at the same moment that I brought a new universe that despite part of Brazilian culture uh it's part of the black Brazilian heritage at the same time it's under a massive uh attack from some uh from from the uh >> religious, radical uh uh some some some groups uh that at certain moments started to uh demonize that this culture. They started to say that this heritage, the philosophy, the perspective of life that comes from this this uh uh uh uh heritage uh it's something wrong or bad. So I tried to make my artwork be a tool for uh uh… Read the full text about 4,338 words
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