Title: SABURO (三郎) – Narrating the unspeakable: memory, affection and image

Abstract: This seminar aims to present the artistic and historical creation process of a comic book that narrates the trajectory of a family of Japanese migrants — from their departure from Japan to their adaptation in the Brazilian Amazon. Based on this experience, the exhibition articulates poetry, process, language, memory (especially affective memory) and history as constituent layers of this artistic endeavour, beyond the biographical journey. The seminar discusses how these dimensions intertwine to construct a narrative that gives sensitive form to that which cannot be reduced to words.

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Ricardo Ono is a professor, visual artist and architect, with a PhD in Arts from the Postgraduate Programme in Arts at the Federal University of Pará and a Master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Winner of the 7th edition of the Benedito Nunes Award (UFPA). In the academic field, he has taught courses in Administration, Visual Arts, Architecture and Urbanism, Conservation and Restoration, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Human Resources Management, Journalism, Multimedia, Museology, Landscaping, and Advertising at the University of Amazonia (UNAMA), the Faculty of Advanced Studies of Pará (FEAPA), the Faculty of Pará (FAP/Estácio), and the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). He currently teaches in the Cinema and Audiovisual Course at ICA (Institute of Art Sciences), UFPA, where he participates in research groups at ICA and other institutes, such as ILC (Institute of Letters and Communication, in the Advertising and Propaganda Course) and ICB (Institute of Health Sciences, in the Occupational Therapy Course), acting as a collaborator in extension projects such as UNITERCI (Institute of Applied Social Sciences – ICSA, in the Social Work Course). In the field of graphic design, he works as a comic book artist, illustrator, editor and production designer.