Ana matilde ANA MATILDE SOUSA (Hetamoé)
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Ana Matilde Sousa is a visual artist and scholar from Lisbon, where she lives and works. As a teenager in the 1990s, she became obsessed with the Japanese anime series Dragon Ball Z, which she watched dubbed in Portuguese by actors who heavily “glocalized” the source material. This cultural schizophrenia never left her, even after years of formal education in fine arts.
In 2012, she co-founded the Portuguese zine label Clube do Inferno, and began to put out her “Japanized” comics under the pseudonym Hetamoé. Since then, her works have been featured in alternative comic publishers and other venues both in Portugal and internationally, including Chili Com Carne (Portugal), Kunsthalle Lissabon and gallery Vera Cortês (Portugal), Le Monde Diplomatique (Portuguese edition), kuš! (Latvia), Ediciones Valientes (Spain), Éditions Trip (Canada), the Anthropocene Curriculum (Germany), 1646 – Experimental Art Space (Netherlands), the Zupełnie Inny Świat magazine (Poland), Silent Army (Australia), and the Kuti magazine (Finland). She regularly participates in art exhibitions and works in a variety of media, from painting, comics and digital illustration to photography, installation and video. In 2020, she co-founded the artist collective MASSACRE.
More recently, she began to experiment with themes related to history, science and technology, and the Anthropocene, in comics like Asbestos in Ambler (Anthropocene Curriculum, 2017), the graphic novel Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions (Chili Com Carne, 2019), or her contribution to Kuti # 65 ‘Contemporary Portuguese Comics’ and the Passiflora exhibition, Welcome to the Anthrobscene, which uses images generated by artificial intelligence.
As an author, she presents and publishes articles on Japanese contemporary art and pop culture in classrooms, international peer-reviewed journals, and conferences. Her texts have appeared in books by publishers such as Routledge and the University of Minnesota Press. She holds a Ph.D. in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and currently works there as a FCT Junior Researcher and Invited Assistant Professor.
