This workshop offers students and participants a creative space in which visual art becomes a means of engaging with and responding to Lusophone literary texts—including short stories, poems, and excerpts from longer works. Participants will explore key themes such as migration, diaspora, identity, and belonging, reflecting on how these are expressed in writing and how they might be translated into visual forms.

Guided by visual artist Hugo Lami, participants will produce their own visual interpretations of contemporary literary texts. Working with techniques such as painting, drawing, or collage, they will express the emotions and ideas embedded in the selected works. The workshop will culminate in an exhibition of participants’ creations, potentially displayed at the Maughan Library—opening up a space for dialogue between text and image.

All materials are provided.

About Hugo Lami

Hugo Lami is a Portuguese artist whose work explores the Uncanny— when the familiar becomes strange. Rooted in memories of the Portuguese coast, his textured paintings, often using sand, reflect on place, memory, and the passing of time. Drawing on archives and film stills, his work contemplates our urge to preserve and make sense of the ephemeral.