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Materia :: Alquimia :: Dispositivo :: Flujo&nbsp;︎︎︎ MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, LimaGroup exhibitionCurated by Jorge Villacorta and Augusto Del ValleNovember 18, 2024🌚️&nbsp;Conversaciones desde lo obscuro&nbsp;︎︎︎ MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, LimaScreening and talk with&nbsp;Stéphanie Noach September 8 - November 24, 2024💭&nbsp; Imaginando futuros&nbsp;︎︎︎ MANIFESTA15 Biennial, M|A|C Mataró, BarcelonaCurated by Filipa OlivieraSeptember 5, 2024❤️️&nbsp; The gaze that doesn’t look away: the poetics of memory in the work of Maya Watanabe&nbsp;︎︎︎ Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, LisbonScreening and talk with&nbsp;Raquel Schefer June 27 - December 8, 2024🍃&nbsp; Displacement&nbsp;︎︎︎ MassArt Art Museum, BostonGroup exhibition Curated by Lisa Tung April 6 - July 7, 2024👀&nbsp; MOT Collection: Eye to Eye ︎︎︎ Museum of Contemporary Art, TokyoParticipating Artists | Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Nakamura Hiroshi and Nakazono Koji, Tada Minami, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Matsue Taiji, Maya Watanabe November 25 - 29, 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Modos de desvanecimiento&nbsp;︎︎︎ BIENALSUR, Sursock Museum, BeirutGroup exhibition Curated by&nbsp;Nayla Tamraz and Florencia Incarbone September 7 - October 22, 2023&nbsp;🎭&nbsp; Masquerades&nbsp;︎︎︎ MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, MontrealParticipating Artists |&nbsp;Bianca Baldi, Rémi Belliveau, Valérie Blass, Chris Curreri, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Mara Eagle, Jeannette Ehler, Séamus Gallagher, Lynn Hershman Leeson, siren eun young jung, Marion Lessard, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Marianne Nicolson, Kristina Norman, Meky Ottawa, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Émilie Pitoiset, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Anette Rose, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Hito Steyerl, Maya Watanabe, Carey YoungCurated by Ji-Yoon HanAugust 26 - December 3, 2023⏳️&nbsp; Meaning&nbsp;︎︎︎&nbsp; Inside-Out Art Museum, BeijingGroup exhibitionCurated by Rory Guan June 28 - October 22, 2023👁&nbsp; Manto, el velo que cubre la piedra&nbsp;︎︎︎ Casas Riegner, BogotáGroup exhibition Curated by Leyla Cárdenas May 12 - July 22, 2023👣&nbsp; We live like trees inside the footsteps of our ancestors&nbsp;︎︎︎ Blenheim Walk Gallery, LeedsParticipating Artists | Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, Jeannette Muñoz, Maya Watanabe and Renata PadovanCurated by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha August 20, 2022✈️&nbsp; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin&nbsp;︎︎︎&nbsp; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, BerlinScreening July 01&nbsp;- October 02, 2022🧳 Itinerarios del presente&nbsp;︎︎︎ MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de LimaGroup exhibition &nbsp;December 13-31, 2022🔌&nbsp;&nbsp;Ecstatic Static&nbsp;︎︎︎ &nbsp;online streamingParticipating Artists｜Salomé Lamas, Lois Patiño, Minjung Kim, Malena Szlam November 20, 2021 - January 10, 2022🐟&nbsp;Suspended states ︎︎︎ Kyoto Art Center, KyotoSolo exhibition November 2021 - January, 2022🇵🇪 Video-prospección&nbsp;︎︎︎CEDOC, Santiago de ChileVideo program&nbsp;December 17-21, 2021 &nbsp;🚖&nbsp;&nbsp;FAS ︎︎︎ Parque de la exposición, Lima Public group show November 17 - November 28, 2021 📼&nbsp;Paradocs ︎︎︎&nbsp;IDFA, AmsterdamScreening June - September 5, 2021 ✨ Liminal ︎︎︎ De Pont Museum, TilburgSolo exhibition September 3 - October 9, 2021 ✨ No Name ︎︎︎ tegennboschvanvreden, AmsterdamSolo exhibition July 17 - October 17, 2021 💀 MOT Annual 2021: A sea, a living room and a skull ︎︎︎ Museum of Contemporary Art TokyoParticipating Artists｜Ishu Han, Daisuke Kosugi and Maya WatanabeCurated by Kyongfa Che October 10, 2020 - August 29, 2021 ☁️ Beyond the pain ︎︎︎ Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen Participating Artists｜Bas Jan Ader, Anna Gohmert, Harun Farocki, Patrycia German, Forensic Architecture, Damien Hirst, Viktoria Modesta, Marianna Simnett, Barbis Ruder, Maya Watanabe, Gabrielle Zimmermann.Curated by Madeleine Frey June, 2021🏎&nbsp;Fully leaded ︎︎︎ Industrieweg, AmsterdamParticipating Artists｜Sebastián Díaz Morales, Basir Mahmood, Aernout Mik and Maya WatanabeJune 1 - July 11, 2021 🚩️ Genealogies in the Middle East and Latin America ︎︎︎ Sharjah Art FoundationParticipating Artists｜Mounira Al Solh, Francis Alÿs, Claudia Aravena Abughosh, Arias &amp; Aragón, Guillermo Cifuentes, Alia Farid, Gilda Mantilla &amp; Raimond Chaves, Óscar Muñoz, Enrique Ramírez, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Maya Watanabe and Akram Zaatari,.Curated by Anna Goetz Online 🎧 El Archivo Invisible ︎︎︎ Felipa Manuela, MadridParticipating Artists｜Mercedes Azpilicueta, María Jerez, Elena Tejada-Herrera, Niño de Elche, Claudia Pagès and Maya WatanabeCurated by Pilar SolerOctober 01, 2020 - February 14, 2021🌏&nbsp;On Earth, Image-making Technology and the Natural World ︎︎︎ Le Lieu Unique, NantesParticipating Artists｜Thomas Albdorf, Jonathas de Andrade, Jeremy Ayer, Fabio Barile, Matthew Brandt, Melanie Bonajo, Persijn Broersen &amp; Margit Lukács, Raphaël Dallaporta, Mark Dorf, Lucas Foglia, Noémie Goudal, Mishka Henner, Femke Herregraven, Benoît Jeannet, Adam Jeppesen, Anouk Kruithof, Mårten Lange, Douglas Mandry, Awoiska van der Molen, Drew Nikonowicz, Mehrali Razaghmanesh, Guillaume Simoneau, Troika, Maya Watanabe, Guido van der Werve.Curated by Hinde HaestNovember 23, 2019 – September 20, 2020👣 La mesure du monde ︎︎︎ Mrac Occitanie, SérignanParticipating Artists｜Dove Allouche, Marie Cool &amp; Fabio Balducci, Caroline Corbasson, Attila Csörgo, Edith Dekyndt, Hugo Deverchère, Julien Discrit, Roberto Evangelista, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Mark Geffriaud, Joan Jonas, Pierre Malphettes, Masaki Nakayama, Otobong Nkanga, Elisa Pône, Linda Sanchez, Stéphane Sautour, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Batia Suter, Francisco Tropa, Keiji Uematsu, Capucine Vandebrouck, Adrien Vescovi, Maya Watanabe, Lois Weinberger.Curated by Sandra Patron &amp; Clément NouetMarch 01, 2020 - September, 2020🍎 The order of nature ︎︎︎ The Art Gallery @ GCC - Los AngelesParticipating Artists｜Sophia Al Maria, Adrián Balseca, Carolina Caycedo, Fantasma Rainbow (Tim Brown + Uzi Sabah), Felipe Esparza, Salomé Lamas, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Fern Silva, Malena Szlam, Maya Watanabe, Shanna Yates.Curated by Andrea FrancoMarch 19, 2020 - September 2, 2020🌏&nbsp;On Earth, Image-making Technology and the Natural World ︎︎︎ Foam Fotografiemuseum, AmsterdamParticipating Artists｜Thomas Albdorf, Jonathas de Andrade, Jeremy Ayer, Fabio Barile, Matthew Brandt, Melanie Bonajo, Persijn Broersen &amp; Margit Lukács, Raphaël Dallaporta, Mark Dorf, Lucas Foglia, Noémie Goudal, Mishka Henner, Femke Herregraven, Benoît Jeannet, Adam Jeppesen, Anouk Kruithof, Mårten Lange, Douglas Mandry, Awoiska van der Molen, Drew Nikonowicz, Mehrali Razaghmanesh, Guillaume Simoneau, Troika, Maya Watanabe, Guido van der Werve.Curated by Hinde HaestJuly 24, 2020 - September 26, 2020🧳&nbsp;Olev Subbi: Landscapes from the end of times ︎︎︎ Tallinn Art Hall, EstoniaParticipating Artists｜Olev Subbi, Larry Achiampong, María Dalberg, Nona Inescu, Ad Minoliti, Juana Subercaseaux, Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, and Maya WatanabeCurated by Àngels MiraldaAugust 17, 2019 – February 2, 2020🍂 Journey of Thousand Miles, Over the clouds - Contemporary Video Art from the Han Nefkens Foundatio ︎︎︎ CAC - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, QuitoParticipating Artists｜Jungju An (Corea del Sur), Adrián Balseca (Ecuador), Vajiko Chachkhiani (Georgia), Cyrus Kabiru (Kenia), Heecheon Kim (Corea del Sur), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), Phuong Linh Linh (Vietnam), Gabriel Mascaro (Brasil), Arash Nassiri (Irán), Erkan Ozgen (Turquía), Maya Watanabe (Perú), Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh y Hesam Rahmanian (Irán / Estados Unidos)Curated by Hilde Teerlinck &amp; Eduardo Carrera R.October 5, 2019 – February 2, 2020🦕&nbsp;The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea - Asian Art Biennial ︎︎︎ National Taiwan Museum of Fine ArtsParticipating Artists｜Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI &amp; Alex GVOJIC (with boychild), Antariksa , Zuleikha CHAUDHARI, Charles LIM, Shilpa GUPTA , Roslisham ISMAIL/a.k.a ISE , Guo Fengyi , CHIANG Kai-Chun, CHIU Chen-Hung, HO Rui An, Snow HUANG/Against Again Troupe, jiandyin(Jiradej MEEMALAI and Pornpilai MEEMALAI ), Hiwa K (Iraq), LEE Ufan, LIU Chuang , LIU Yu , Open Contemporary Art Center x Lifepatch, PARK Chan-Kyong, Timur SI-QIN , Gilad RATMAN, Tcheu SIONG, Wukir SURVADI (Senyawa), TING Chaong- Wen, Ming WONG , Maya WATANABE , WANG Si-Shun, Yuichiro TAMURA, WANG Hong-Kai, YEE I-Lann, Sawangwongse YAWNGHWECurated by HSU Chia-Wei、HO Tzu-Nyen12 October – 11 March, 2019🐟&nbsp;Stasis ︎︎︎ Baco Arte Contemporanea, BergamoSolo exhibitionAgosto 21 – Octubre 27, 2019🌱&nbsp;Liminal ︎︎︎ MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima, LimaSolo exhibitionSeptember 29 – November 24, 2019🕳 At the fringes of identity, Contemporary Video Art from the Han Nefkens Foundatio ︎︎︎ MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone, LissoneParticipating Artists｜Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian / Gabriel Mascaro / Zwelethu Mthethwa / Deimantas Narkevičius / Arash Nassiri / Shirin Neshat / Erkan Özgen / Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook / Bárbara Sánchez Barroso / Maya Watanabe / Adrián Balseca / Javier Castro / Jonathas de Andrade / Luis Gómez Armenteros / Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.Curated by Giacomo ZazaWednesday, October 16 and Friday, October 18🎥&nbsp;Liminal ︎︎︎ Cinemateca de BogotáCurated by Ximena Gama November 1 – 30, 2019🛶&nbsp;A Terceira Margem, Anozero ︎︎︎ Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de CoimbraParticipating Artists｜Alexandra Pirici, Ana María Montenegro, Ana Vaz, Anna Boghiguian, António Olaio, Belén Uriel, Bouchra Khalili, Bruno Zhu, Cadu, Daniel Melim, Daniel Senise, David Claerbout, Eugénia Mussa, Joanna Piotrowska, João Gabriel, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, José Bechara, José Spaniol, Julius von Bismarck, Laura Vinci, Luís Lázaro Matos, Luis Felipe Ortega, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Magdalena Jitrik, Maria Condado, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Marilá Dardot, Mattia Denisse, Maya Watanabe, Meriç Algün, Przemek Pyszczek, Renato Ferrão, Rita Ferreira, Steve McQueen, Susan Hiller and Tomás Cunha Ferreira.Curated by Agnaldo Farias, Lígia Afonso and Nuno de Brito RochaOctober 1, 2019🌱&nbsp;Liminal ︎︎︎ MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century ArtSolo screening 22nd June - 30th August 🌹 Liminal ︎︎︎ Rose Art Museum, MassachusettsSolo exhibitionCurated by Caitlin Julia Rubin30th March - 30th June 2019🕑&nbsp;2nd Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition ︎︎︎ Wuzhen Art District, WuzhenParticipating Artists｜Brook Andrew, Gilles Barbier, James Beckett, Persijn Broersen&amp;Margit Lukács, Chen Wencun, Children of the Light, Rineke Dijkstra, Regina José Galindo, Minna Henriksson, He Xiangyu, Gary Hill, Ho Tzu Nyen, Humans since 1982, Sojung Jun, Anish Kapoor, Liang Shaoji, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kohei Nawa, Shirin Neshat, Kingsley Ng,Shinji Ohmaki, Julian Opie, Gregor Schneider, Katja Schenker, Kazuyo Sejima, Sissel Tolaas, Amalia Ulman, Wang Tuo, Maya Watanabe, Entang Wiharso, Jana Winderen, Xu Tan, Xu Yibo, Yang Fudong, Samson Young, Liam YoungCurated by Feng Boyi, Liu Gang, Wang Xiaosong12th April 2019🇨🇺 13º Havana Biennial ︎︎︎ CAC Wilfredo Lam26th February 2019🔥&nbsp;Liminal&nbsp;︎︎︎&nbsp;La Casa Encendida, Madrid - Han Nefkens Foundation - ARCOMadrid PrizeSolo exhibition6th - 10th February 2019🎞 Projections ︎︎︎ ART Rotterdam, Rotterdam Also works by: Persijn Broersen &amp; Margit Lukács, Lara Almarcegui, Caroline Mesquita, Johan Grimonprez, Arash Nassir.Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum19th June - 24th June 2018✈️ RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN ︎︎︎ Haus der Kulturen der WeltBerlin❤️ Recipient of the HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION – ARCOMADRID AWARDMore info // HNF websiteMore info // resolution of the jury16th February - 13th March 2018⛩ Video SUR ︎︎︎ Palais de TokyoMore info // website4th February - 4th March 2018🌪 Earthquakes ︎︎︎ Bradwolff Projects, AmsterdamSolo exhibitionCurated by Madelon van SchieMore info and text // website2nd February - 31st March 2018🌑 Gaia in the Anthropocene ︎︎︎ Garage RotterdamRotterdamWorks by: Milena Bonilla, Rometti Costales, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Jonathas de Andrade, Jimmie Durham, Thierry Oussou and Maya WatanabeCurated by Sjoerd Kloosterhuis &amp; Madelon van SchieMore info and text // website10th November - 30th December 2017👂🏽 Tongue and ear ︎︎︎ Kristiansand KunsthallKristiansandWorks by: Annika Ström, Letícia Parente, Maya Watanabe, Pablo Pijnappel and vocal constructivists.Curated by Felipe Pena and Thora Dolven Balke.More info // website6th October - 5th November 2017💥 13ª Bienal de Artes Mediales | temblor ︎︎︎ Museo Nacional de Bellas ArtesSantiago de ChileWorks by: Norimichi Hirasawa, Cornelia Koch y Sofía Vargas, Maya Watanabe, Pierre Huyghe, Monica Bonvicini, Cindy Sherman, Rafael Guendelman, Rosell Meseguer, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gianfranco Foschino, Narda Alvarado, Pilar Quinteros, among others.Curated by Pedro Donoso, Carolina Gainza, Valentina Montero, Mariagrazia Muscatello and Sebastián Riffo.More info // website13th - 17th September 2017🚬 Proyector Festival de Videoarte ︎︎︎ Tabacalera, MadridWorks by: Enrique Ramírez (chi), Maya Watanabe (per), Salomé Lamas (por), Carlos Gomes (por) + Fran López (esp), Eduardo Restrepo (col), Regina José Galindo (gua), Dominik Ritszel (pol), Alex Francés (esp), Cristian Guardia (veny Joshua Chacón (méx), Jorge Galindo y Santiago Sierra (esp), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (esp), Vanane Borian (arm), Benjamin Petersen (ale), Marko Schiefelbein (ale), Iciar Vega de Seoane (esp), Raúl Valverde (esp), Erika Ordosgoitti (ven), Pavel Büchler (pol) y Márcio-André (bra).Curated by Mario Gutiérrez CruMore info // website5th September - 5th October 2017👓 O fazer cinema das artes visuais ︎︎︎ Centro Cultural Banco do NordesteFortalezaWorks by: Fred Benevides, Milena Travassos, Filipe Acácio, Maya Watanabe, Mihai Grecu, Juliane Peixoto and Raoni Shaira.Curated by Beatriz Furtado.21st February - 16th April 2017📍 Próxima parada. Artistas peruanos en la colección Hochschild ︎︎︎ Alcalá 31MadridWorks by: Elena Damiani, Fernando Bryce, Jose Carlos Martinat, Miguel Andrade, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Ishmael Randall, Teresa Burga, Armando Andrade Tudela, Fernando Huanchado, Alberto Borea, Maya Watanabe, among others.Curated by Octavio Zaya💚 VIDEOBRASIL BLOG ︎︎︎ In ResidenceEarthquakes shooting - backstage photosView blog entry7th January - 19th February 2017🎋 Earthquakes ︎︎︎ KYOTO ART CENTERKyotoMore info // website8th December 2016 - 11th January 2017❄️ FROZEN WORLD OF THE FAMILIAR STRANGER ︎︎︎ KHOJNew DelhiWorks by: Cao Fei, Farideh Lashai, Himali Singh Soin, Ho Tzu Nyen, Kartik Sood, Maya Watanabe, Rachel Rose, Sahej Rahal, Steffani Jemison and Tejal Shah.Co-curated by Sitara Chowfla (KHOJ) and Heidi Rabben (KADIST)More info // website16th - 20th November 2016🍓 Monitoring / Kasseler Docfest ︎︎︎ FRIDERICIANUM, Kasseler KunstvereinKasselWorks by: Jasmina Cibic, Peter Liechtis, Johanna Reich, Arianna Waldner, Yves Netzhammer, Jolanda Gsponer, Annette Brütsc.More info // website12th October 2016❄️ FROZEN WORLD OF THE FAMILIAR STRANGER ︎︎︎ KADIST FUNDATIONSan FranciscoWorks by: Andrea Bowers, Cao Fei, Steffani Jemison, Chris Johanson, Farideh Lashai, Rodney McMillian, Sahej Rahal, Rachel Rose, Tejal Shah, Himali Singh Soin, Kartik Sood, Ho Tzu Nyen, Adrián Villar Rojas, and Maya Watanabe.Co-curated by Sitara Chowfla (KHOJ) and Heidi Rabben (KADIST)More info // See website🇵🇪 PERUVIAN NATIONAL COMPETITION OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 2016More info // Jury's decisionMore info // See website15th July - 25th September 2016📼 POST/FACIO. Melancolías de la violencia ︎︎︎ LUM - Lugar de la memoria, la tolerancia y la inclusión socialLimaWorks by: Miguel Aguirre, Luz María Bedoya, Angie Bonino, Patricia Bueno, Susana Torres Márquez (en colaboración con Patricia Bueno), Íntegro (Óscar Naters / Ana Zavala), Diego Lama, Chiara Macchiavello, Alfredo Márquez, José Luis Martinat, Silvana Pestana, Santiago Quintanila, Carlos Runcie Tanaka, Giancarlo Scaglia, Moico Yaker, Maya Watanabe.Curated by Gustavo BuntinxMore info // See website24th - 27th July 2016🩹 FILOCTETES / PHILOKTETES (John Jesurun version ︎︎︎ Festival de creación escénica contemporánea, Universidad PacíficoLimaDirected by Carlos CuevaAudiovisual art direction by Maya WatanabeMusic on stage by Mijail MitrovicOn stage: Erika Aguilar, Lucía De María, Rafael Freyre, Mijail Mitrovic, Basilio Soraluz, Lita Sousa. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------POÉTICAS DEL RESTO: Melancolías de la violencia en la obra de Giancarlo Scaglia y Maya Watanabe ︎︎︎ MICROMUSEOLima21h April - 21th July 2016Curated by Gustavo BuntinxMore info // Curatorial text-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/El-Pndulo-Maya-Watanabe-Museo-de-la-memoria-y-los-derechos-humanos_600_600.png" width="480" height="369" style="width: 421.402px; height: 323.953px;">El Péndulo&nbsp;︎︎︎ Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos HumanosSantiago de Chile28th April - 3rd July 2016More info // see website-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/Un-desierto-A-desert-Paisajes-galeria-80m2_670.jpg" width="480" height="264" style="width: 421.402px; height: 231.771px;">PAISAJES ︎︎︎ 80m2 Livia BenavidesLima19th April - 19th July 2016Works by: Gabriel Acevedo, Iosu Aramburu, William Cordova, Nancy La Rosa, Marco Pando, Rita Ponce de León, Maya Watanabe, David Zink-Yi-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/Videobrasil-Maya-Watanabe-Escenarios_587.jpg" width="480" height="239" style="width: 421.402px; height: 209.823px;">19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil // Residency prize for EscenariosAT KYOTO ART CENTER (KYOTO, JAPAN)More info // prizesMore info // see website-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/southern-panoramas-19-videobrasil_1_300.jpg" width="300" height="165" style="width: 300px; height: 165px;"><img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/Southern-panoramas-19-videobrasil-2_670.jpg" width="480" height="226" style="width: 421.402px; height: 198.41px;">19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc VideobrasilSESC PompeyaSao Paulo6th October - 6th December 2015In view of significant global changes that point to a shift in power dynamics from North to South and West to East, as purportedly outlying countries amass political power, and economic collapse threatens traditionally hegemonic areas, to what extent does it still make sense to speak of a geopolitical South?More info // see website-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/Escenarios-Scenaries-Maya-Watanabe-Palais-de-Tokyo-festival-Do-disturb_905_670.jpg" width="480" height="315" style="width: 421.402px; height: 276.545px;">DO DISTURB!Palais de TokyoParis9th, 10th and 11th April 2015Guest contributors for this first edition of DO DISTURB! are MoMA PS1 (New York), Tate Modern (London), the Matadero Madrid, the National Centre for Visual Arts (Centre national des arts plastiques - CNAP, Paris), the 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine (Metz, France) and the Berghain (Berlin)In April 2012, a few days before its reopening, Palais de Tokyo held a warm-up event with 30 hours of non-stop concerts, performances, conferences, screenings and shows. “DO DISTURB!” is on a similar vein. It will be bold, brash and creative, a feast of culture against the backdrop of the usual Palais de Tokyo buzz.More info // see website-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/escenarios-maya-watanabe-80m2_670.jpg" width="480" height="608" style="width: 421.402px; height: 533.776px;">ESCENARIOSGalería 80m2 Livia BenavidesLima7th August - 20th September 2014The word scenaries means in Spanish both, a place where a situation or action take place and a theatre stage area.In an endless 360º long take, three difeferent landscapes shows clandestine, forbidden or isolated places. Each scene has been staged and the situations has been build up from scratch.The images allude to the recent history of Lima and it comes from the intersection of political and biographical images. The timeless and suspended landscapes addresses memory as a silent and unresolved concept.More info // see websiteMore info // Toda historia política construye su escena by Miguel A. López-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/10/335065/12012821/matadero-cartel-watanabe_670.jpg" width="480" height="678" style="width: 421.402px; height: 595.23px;">EL PÉNDULO / PENDULUMMatadero MadridMadrid28th March 2014 - 18th May 2014In El Péndulo (The Pendulum), a video-installation of three screens, the artist Maya Watanabe takes the sacred texts of the three monotheistic religions as a point of departure to question how we create our own narrative: Is our narrative how we create our identity? How can we understand ourselves as unique beings as well as a collective, through narrative?Narrative, identity and space form our being as a whole but what happens if these guiding principles are broken. We are facing a period in which narratives of identity and its relationship with space/context is subverted and reformed without these principles: narrative as a fragmented map of ideas, space as a context free of spatial reference points and identity as flux.More info // see website https://mayawatanabe.com/About Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:56:23 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/About I’m a visual artist and filmmaker who works mainly with large video installations. My work has been shown internationally at venues such as De Pont Museum in Tilburg (2021), MAXXI Museum in Rome (2019), MALI – Museo de Arte de Lima (2019), Rose Art Museum in Massachusetts (2019), La Casa Encendida in Madrid (2019), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2019), Kyoto Art Center (2017), Das Fridericianum in Kassel (2016), and Matadero in Madrid (2014). My work has also been featured in art biennials and international festivals, including Videobrasil, the 13th Havana Biennial, Asian Art Biennial, the 2nd Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, and the Beijing Biennial. In addition to my visual art practice, I have contributed as an audiovisual art director for stage productions in Peru, Spain, Austria, Italy, and the Netherlands. I’m based in Amsterdam, where I teach at the Rietveld Academie; and I’m currently a PhD researcher at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. SOLO SHOWS 2025 · Bullet, MASP, São Paulo 2021· Liminal, De Pont, Tillburg · Suspended states, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto . No Name, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam 2019· Liminal, screening, MaXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome· Liminal, Art Museum of Lima, MALI, Lima· Liminal, Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts· Stasis, Baco Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo · Liminal, La Casa Encendida, Madrid2018· Earthquakes, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam2017· Earthquakes, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto2016· El Péndulo, El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile2014· Escenarios, 80m2 - Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima.· El Péndulo, Matadero Madrid, Madrid2013· Paisajes, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima.· En la diferencia, Qorikancha, Cusco2011· Archimobile, Centro Cultural de España en Miami, Miami2010· Maya Watanabe, videos 2005-2009, Fundación Telefónica, Lima2005· Dinner Project, Espaciomenos1 Gallery, Madrid GROUP SHOWS2025·&nbsp;Roppongi Crossing 2025, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo · Corte Transversal, Centro Cultural Inca Garcilazo, Lima 2024· MANIFESTA15, MAC Mataró, Barcelona· Contemporáneo1, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima· Displacement, MAAM, MassArt Art Museum, Boston· Qué hay detrás de la ventana, CCELima· MOT Collection, Eye to Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo2023· Meaning, IOAM, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing· MOMENTA, Biennale d’art contemporain, Occurrence, Montreal· We live like trees inside the footsteps of our ancestors, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds· Manto, el velo que cubre la piedra, Casas Riegner, Bogotá· BIENALSUR, Sursock Museum, Beirut· BIENALSUR, Centro Cultural da UFRGS, Porto Alegre 2022· Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin,&nbsp;Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin· Itinerarios dl presente,&nbsp;MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima· Ecstatic Static, online streaming· FAS, Parque de la exposición, Lima2021· Genealogies in the Middle East and Latin America, Sharjah Art Foundation,&nbsp;Sharjah· MOT Annual 2021: A sea, a living room and a skull, MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo· El Archivo Invisible, Felipa Manuela, Madrid · Fully leaded,&nbsp;Industrieweg 21, Amsterdam 2020 · Beyond the pain, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen· La mesure du monde, Mrac Occitanie, Sérignan· On Earth, Image-making Technology and the Natural World, FOAM - Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam· On Earth, Image-making Technology and the Natural World, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes · The order of nature, Art Gallery GCC, California· Olev Subbi: Landscapes from the end of times, The Tallinn Art Hall, Taillin 2019 · Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan· A terceira margem, Anozero - Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra· Journey of Thousand Miles, CAC Quito, Quito· At the fringes of identity, MUST Museo Histórico de Lecce, Lecce· On Earth, Image-making Technology and the Natural World, Curated by FOAM, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles· La mirada diferente, CC. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima· 13º Havana Biennial, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Havana· Hypertimes, Future Dome, Milan· Rivers flow out of my eyes, Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery, Amsterdam2018· How it comes to matter, DAI, Hot wheels, Athens· Gaia in the Anthropocene, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam· Video SUR, Palais de Tokyo, Paris2017· 13° Bienal de Artes Mediales de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago· Falência, Galería Cavalo, Río de Janeiro· Coordenadas alteradas, ICPNA Cultural, Lima· Hochschild collection, Alcalá 31 exhibition hall, Madrid2016· Monitoring, Das Fridericianum, Kassel· Frozen world of the familiar stranger, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco· Frozen world of the familiar stranger, Khoj, New Delhi· Derivas, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima· Post/fasio, melancolías de la violencia, LUM, Lima· Poéticas del resto en la obra de Giancarlo Scaglia y Maya Watanabe, Micromuseo, Lima· Paisajes, 80m2 - Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima· Hacer la audición. Encuentros entre arte y sonido en el Perú, Contemporary Art Museum of Lima, Lima· 4x5 - Coleccionistas, creadoras y narrativas audiovisuales, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid2015· Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris· La casa en fuga, Edom, Murcia· Centro Centro, Centro Cibeles, Madrid· Salón de Junio Machala Internacional, Machala2014· Trienal do Frestas, SESC Sorocaba, São Paulo· Bienal ABLI, NMM. Studio, Lima· Construcciones audiovisuales, Irun Factory, Irun· 4x5, CAS, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla, Sevilla· Un nuevo medio en el medio: historia del videoarte peruano, Galería Pancho Fierro, Lima· Lima Photography Biennal, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima2013· Artesur: Collective Fictions, Palais de Tokyo, París· Looking for video, Claudine Papillon Gallery, Paris· Arranjos experimentais, Audiovisuales en America Latina y Espanha, CINUSP, São Paulo.· Retomándo el control, Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Lima· ¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art, Walter and Mc Bean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco· Lathe cuts Fundación Telefónica, Lima· Proyector2013, Visuacontainer, Milan· El territorio: los ámbitos / las moradas, ART LIMA, International Art Fair, Lima2012· Lenguaje/Estructura/Territorio en la colección de arte contemporáneo del MALI, Art Museum of Lima, Lima· BYOB, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima.· Culturas en tránsito, Panorámica del videoarte contemporáneo peruano. Centro Cultural de España en Chile, Santiago de Chile / Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo, Montevideo· Y si todos volvieran? Emigrados, remesas simbólicas/movilidades globales, Fundación Telefónica, Lima· Generación 2012, La Casa Encendida, Madrid - Espai de Caja Madrid, Barcelona· Sala de Arte Empático, Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid2011· See you on the flip side, AC Institute, AC Exit Project Space, New York.· What’s on your mind, World Bank Washington, Washington DC· Ficciones, Bienal de fotografía y nuevos medios, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay· Biblioteca intervenida, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander, Santander / Centro Torrente Ballester de Ferrol, Galicia / DAFO, Lleida.2010· La herencia construída, Espacio Líquido, Gijón· Pantallas del Video Arte Peruano, Fundación Telefónica, Lima.· V Marmara Triennal, Istambul.2009· Beijing Biennale, Latinoamerican selection 798 Art District, Beijing.· Amsterdam Mediamatic Biennale, Peruvian selection, Mediamatic, Amsterdam.· Del Insilio al Exilio – Festival Transitio MX, Espacio Alameda, México DF.· Extranjerías Mediáticas (programmed by Jorge La Ferla for the exhibition “Extranjerías”, commissioned by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta), Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires.· Injuve 2009, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.2008· Madrid Abierto 08, La Casa Encendida, Madrid.· Pasaporte para un Artista, Prize Exhibition, First Prize , Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima.2007· Intervenciones TV, Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria-Gasteiz.· Bezdomny #3 Tystnaden, Gothenburg.· Product Festival, Festival of Contemporary Art Varna, Varna.· Play, Rojo Máquina Gallery, Madrid.2006· Canal Abierto 06, - XIII Jorn. de Estudio de la Imagen de la Comunidad de Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, Madrid.· Quince, Drama Contemporary Art Gallery, Lima.· Contemporary Art Festival FAC, Básico Art Collective, Lima. FESTIVALS &amp; SCREENINGS 2024· Maya Watanabe, Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon· Het Documentaire Paviljoen, IDFA, Amsterdam· Conversaciones desde lo obscuro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima· Liminal, RISD Museum, Providence 2023· Overcoming the forms of the outer world, Ilidio Pinho, Porto· Tallahassee Film Festival, Florida2022 · Liminal - KIRIK, online screening 2021 · IDFA documentary film festival- Paradocs, Eye Museum, Amsterdam · Video-prospección - CEDOC, Santiago de Chile 2019· Museo Macro Asilo, Rome· The order of nature, Francois Ghebaly gallery, Los Ángeles · Fronteras de la imagen, Cinemateca de Bogotá 2018· RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES, new cinema and contemporary art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin· Los Nuevos Sensibles, CC Matucana, Santiago de Chile2017· FIVA - Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Es Baluart, Palma de Mallorca.· Southern wave, in collaboration with DAI &amp; Casco, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven· Memorias y videos, LUM Museum, Lima2016· Complejidad y diversidad del nuevo cine peruano, U. Cayetano Heredia, Lima2015· 19º Festival Internacional SESC_VIDEOBRASIL, Panoramas do Sul, São Paulo· Strangelove festival, Central Saint Martins, London· Iberencontros, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea, Castelo Branco2014· Art Basel, film sector, Soundscape Park, Miami· Video arte peruano del último quinquenio, BIM, Buenos Aires· Videopoetry, International Fonlad Festival, Pavilhao Centro de Portugal, Cohimbra· Contested Spaces, Art Bengaluru, Bangalore· Direct Action, Cologne OFF, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin· DAF - Musique et Performance, Fonderie Kugler, Ginebra2013· 18º Festival Internacional SESC_VIDEOBRASIL, Panoramas do Sul, SESC Belezinho, São Paulo· 26º Instants Video, Marsella.· Week-end Amérique latine, Musée du quai Branly, París· Festival de Cine de Lima, CC. de España en Lima· DAF, Musique et Performance, Fonderie Kugler, Genève· FLAVIA, festival de videoarte latinoamericano, out-of-competition section, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires· PArC – Perú Arte Contemporáneo, MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima2012· FILE Rio, Art Galery of Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro· Videoakt, International Videoart Biennial, Instituto Cervantes, Berlin· ¿En qué estás?, La Casa Encendida, Madrid· Perufest, New peruvian cinema, King Juan Carlos of Spain Center, New York2011· Accion!MAD, Performance in collaboration with Anne-Françoise Raskin, Matadero Madrid, Madrid· 17º Festival Internacional SESC_VIDEOBRASIL, Panoramas do Sul, SESC Belezinho, São Paulo.· ArtBo, Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, Sede Chapinero de la CCB, Bogotá· FIVA, Festival Internacional de Videoarte Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires· Cultura y Media, FIVA, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires· IV Festival de videoarte de Camaguey, Consejo Provincial de las Artes, Camaguey· Mirada Capital, Lima Independiente Film Festival, CC. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima· Videoakt, International Videoart Biennial, Liminal B, LOOP Fair, Hotel Amistel, Barcelona· The art of storytelling, The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham· Inventar la Voz, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima· Semana del Arte Perú, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, MAC-Lima, Lima2010· FILE, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, SESI’s Art Gallery, FIESP Cultural Center, Sao Paulo· Videogramas, C.C. Ricardo Palma, Lima· Split screen, Stuffinablank.com· Panorama del videoart peruà, Fundació Casa Amèrica· Off Loop – Videoarte Peruano, Swallow Gallery, Barcelona.2009· Audiovisual en Latinoamérica, Arlindo Machado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid.· Up and Coming, International Film Festival Hannover, Int. competition, Hannover.· Peruvian Videoart, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMba), Buenos Aires.· Amalgama/Sesión Collage, LOOP 09 Videoart Festival, Barcelona.2007· Espace 29, Espace 29 Cultural Center, Bordeaux DISTINCTIONS &amp; AWARDS2024 · Mondriaan Fonds, Kunstenaar Basis, Amsterdam· Mondriaan Fonds, Project grant for artists, Amsterdam 2021 · Mondriaan Fonds, Project grant for artists, Amsterdam 2019· Multiverso Grants, Bilbao· Mondriaan Fonds, Stipendium for Established Artists , Amsterdam· Mondriaan Fonds, Project grant for artists, Amsterdam 2018· Mondriaan Fonds, project grant, Amsterdam· HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION – ARCOMADRID AWARD, Madrid· Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, development budget, Amsterdam2016· Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, project grant, Amsterdam· DAFO Peruvian National Competition of Experimental Films 20162015· 19º Festival Internacional SESC_VIDEOBRASIL, Res Artis residency prize, Kyoto Art Center· Hamaca – Museo Reina Sofía 2015, Barcelona - Madrid2014· LUCES National Prize 2014, best Peruvian audiovisual exhibition of the year· 13 Mostra Gas Natural, MAC, Coruña2013· Melting Plot Europe, Turin, Vienna and Madrid.2011· Generación 2012, Caja Madrid.· Videoakt, International Videoart Biennial, LOOP Fair, Barcelona. First Prize· Lima Independiente Film Festival, Lima.· FIVA, Festival Internacional de Videoarte Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires.· IV Premio de Cine Ensayo ‘Román Gubern’, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona.2010· FILE, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica, SESI’s Art Gallery, FIESP Cultural Center, Sao Paulo.· Cité Internationale des Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program, París.· Ayudas a la Movilidad Internacional de Creadores, Matadero Madrid, Madrid.2009· The Archive of Madrid Creators, Cultural Area of Madrid’s City Council, Matadero Madrid.· Injuve 2009, INJUVE, Youth Institute, Ministry of Equality, Madrid.2008· Pasaporte para un artista, French Embassy in Peru , Lima-París. First prize2007· Intervenciones TV - Madrid Abierto 08, Montehermoso Cultural Center – La Casa Encendida, Madrid.2006· XIII Image Studies Journal of the Madrid Community, Sala de Arte Canal de Isabel II, Madrid. VISUALS FOR STAGE2024· The Earth is Flat, dir. by Julian Hetzel - audiovisual art direction – Premiered at Stary Theatre, Krakow 2019· Jardín de Oro, dir. by Oscar Naters (Integro Theatre Company) - audiovisual art direction - Grand National Theater of Peru, Lima2016· Filoctetes, dir. by Carlos Cuevas (LOT Theatre Company) - audiovisual art direction - Pacific University Theatre, Festival de creación escénica contemporánea, Lima2014· Passante, Melting Plot Europe collaborative project with Sandra Gugic (AT) and Max Carletti (IT) - audiovisual art direction and stage design - Teatro Stabile Torino, Turin· 11 Fragmente einer möglichen Verortung, Melting Plot Europe collaborative project with Sandra Gugic (AT) and Max Carletti (IT) - audiovisual art direction and stage design - Kulturelles Stadtlabor Palais Kabelwerk, Wien2012· Consequencias, dir. by Francisco Lorenzo - visuals for stage and stage design assistance - Teatro Principal, Zaragoza2011· Luisa Fernanda, dir. by Moreno Toborra - visuals for stage - Teatro Gayarre, Pamplona2005· Trouble in Tahiti , dir. by Tomás Muñoz - visuals for stage - Teatro Real, Madrid2003· Le Muñequé, dir. by Martín Guerra - stage design assistance - Centro Cultural PUCP, LimaARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE2024 Hangar Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon 2019 The Watermill Center (collab. Agustina Muñoz), New York2016 Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto2012 Sacatar, Salvador de Bahía.2012 Matadero Madrid, Spain.2010 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. https://mayawatanabe.com/Contact-1 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:15:59 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/Contact-1 maya@mayawatanabe.com www.80m2galeria.com 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima www.tegenboschvanvreden.com tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam https://mayawatanabe.com/home-background-image Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:48:53 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/home-background-image https://mayawatanabe.com/JARKOV-1 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:52 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/JARKOV-1 <img width="1920" height="1200" width_o="1920" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c3cf758df3d3e03f8a68568729eec15c04029e71c365049e6b47e2603c0ee1e/vlcsnap-2026-05-22-12h20m54s397.png" data-mid="250250280" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c3cf758df3d3e03f8a68568729eec15c04029e71c365049e6b47e2603c0ee1e/vlcsnap-2026-05-22-12h20m54s397.png" />Still from video <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dae142b9381f5ef045206641d44ac40f430e14da14dc7946fa5bad2d8ad211c/Maya-Watanabe_MRC7649-1.jpg" data-mid="250250281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dae142b9381f5ef045206641d44ac40f430e14da14dc7946fa5bad2d8ad211c/Maya-Watanabe_MRC7649-1.jpg" /> CANICULA, Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, 2026 <img width="3075" height="2054" width_o="3075" height_o="2054" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6141370e678e229998b249183a97fb2c014a10b41bbe308f661c0a37ad49d2a/Imagen-1.jpg" data-mid="250250554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6141370e678e229998b249183a97fb2c014a10b41bbe308f661c0a37ad49d2a/Imagen-1.jpg" />MORI Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025 Over the last two decades, the Arctic permafrost has lost one meter of ground each year. As it melts, it uncovers carcasses from the Pleistocene Epoch. Buried in ice for millennia, these frozen bodies appear remarkably well preserved from time and material decay, sometimes maintaining fur, skin, and internal organs intact. Jarkov is a complete woolly mammoth who died 20,000 years ago. Upon discovery, instead of being excavated, he was removed as a single, solid mass along with the surrounding soil. As a result, the mammoth remains are encased in a block of permafrost, only displaying visible patches of skin and hair on the surface, as well as two tusks protruding from it. Carved from the permafrost in northern Siberia, an underground tunnel houses the 23-ton block containing Jarkov. The frozen subterranean cavern maintains a constant temperature of -12 °C year-round, preventing the block from thawing. Commissioned and produced&nbsp;by&nbsp;Fondazione&nbsp;In&nbsp;Between&nbsp;Art&nbsp;Film for the exhibition Canicula, curated by Alessandro Rabottini and&nbsp;Leonardo&nbsp;Bigazzi.Co-produced by the Mori Art Museum.Produced with additional financial support from the&nbsp;Mondrian&nbsp;Fund.Director | Maya Watanabe Sound designer |&nbsp;Robin Rimbaud - Scanner Line producer |&nbsp;Nicolay Bem Cinematography |&nbsp;Arthur Sokolov Editing |&nbsp;Maya Watanabe Color correction |&nbsp;Alejandro Armaleo VFX |&nbsp;Outer-313 Thanks to Mamont Inn, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Issa Watanabe, Stéphanie Noach, Anya Bitkina, Musuk Nolte, Arsenio Outekhine, Mikhail Zheleznikov, Kathleen Forde, Dick Mol, Nicole Wolf, Kodwo Eshun, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Sara Gianini, Katia Krupennikova, Mieke Bal, Ernst van Alphen, Milo Watanabe Díaz Morales, Tegenboschvanvreden (NL) and 80mts Livia Benavides gallery (PE). https://mayawatanabe.com/BULLET Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:33:38 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/BULLET <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9669b56b70caa59697bf931255fc90d257eb39313e01444d506d5013f3ff55df/Bullet-MOT-09.jpg" data-mid="153195052" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9669b56b70caa59697bf931255fc90d257eb39313e01444d506d5013f3ff55df/Bullet-MOT-09.jpg" /> MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021 <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4ce8c16f4ac1ca3650e3ea15379c9da115e2a1ca874d1ccb9238779a9e1b37c/Bullet-MOT-10.jpg" data-mid="153195053" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4ce8c16f4ac1ca3650e3ea15379c9da115e2a1ca874d1ccb9238779a9e1b37c/Bullet-MOT-10.jpg" />MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021 The period of violence in Peru raged from 1980 to 2000. Waged between two guerrilla groups—Sendero Luminoso and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru—and state military forces, it took almost 70,000 lives. From the 16,000 disappeared people still missing today, 600 human remains have been recovered and analysed, yet they cannot be identified. They hover under the status “NN” –“No Name. Bullet&nbsp; documents the interior of the skull of an unidentified body extrajudicially killed by the Peruvian Armed Forces in 1986. The surface of the skull is smooth, except for the fractures surrounding a small, round bullet hole. The camera penetrates this opening, revealing an abandoned rock-like landscape within, inhabited only by a suspended shell of spider’s molt. Commissioned and produced by MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Co-produced by BBVA Foundation, Spain. Produced with additional financial support from the Mondrian Fund.Director | Maya WatanabeCamera and editing | Maya WatanabeSound | Jaime E. Oliver La RosaSpecial thanks:Equipo Forense Especializado del Ministerio Público Fiscalía de la Nación de Perú, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Gredna Landolt, Carmen Rosa Cardoza, Alain Wittmann, Casa Baraybar, Tegenboschvanvreden (NL) and 80mts Livia Benavides gallery (PE). https://mayawatanabe.com/LIMINAL-2 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:39:23 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/LIMINAL-2 <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/033407ebeb0fa6bdc673cb2d0a6652a8ab2bd7d2c1b20d69cf020610e37a0879/Liminal-beyond_thePain2020_HK_01313-1.jpg" data-mid="106064953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/033407ebeb0fa6bdc673cb2d0a6652a8ab2bd7d2c1b20d69cf020610e37a0879/Liminal-beyond_thePain2020_HK_01313-1.jpg" />Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, 2020 <img width="1920" height="1008" width_o="1920" height_o="1008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a75b49c2783c0abc45388c1ccd65cd70075968dcfcc7343d7b607e6eb63fb655/Liminial-Rose-Art-Museum--Boston--2019.jpg" data-mid="106064956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a75b49c2783c0abc45388c1ccd65cd70075968dcfcc7343d7b607e6eb63fb655/Liminial-Rose-Art-Museum--Boston--2019.jpg" />Rose Art Museum, Boston, 2019 <img width="1920" height="1298" width_o="1920" height_o="1298" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f58e5f0b7cda411272ce937523363142895170d8c9c92608a129b866b1641841/Liminal-csm_Watanabe_Liminal_De_Pont_web_c002f985ce.jpg" data-mid="109355846" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f58e5f0b7cda411272ce937523363142895170d8c9c92608a129b866b1641841/Liminal-csm_Watanabe_Liminal_De_Pont_web_c002f985ce.jpg" />De Pont Museum, Tillburg, 2021 <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/126d369f6f6b26e8c5ebc755af888391face3526390dedc7382accb51b2f5ddb/Liminal-Produced-by-the-Han-Nefkens-Foundation-photo-Roberto-Ruiz-03.jpg" data-mid="106064954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/126d369f6f6b26e8c5ebc755af888391face3526390dedc7382accb51b2f5ddb/Liminal-Produced-by-the-Han-Nefkens-Foundation-photo-Roberto-Ruiz-03.jpg" />La casa encendida, Madrid, 2019. Photo by Roberto Ruiz The period of violence in Peru raged from 1980 to 2000. Waged between two guerrilla groups—Sendero Luminoso and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru—and state military forces, it took almost 70,000 lives. From them, 16,000 are still missing and some 6,000 mass graves remain unexcavated. Liminal &nbsp;shows an extreme close-up of a mass grave. It is the result of following the Peruvian Specialised Forensic Team in the recovery of human remains belonging to two separate cases, both from the year 1984. The scenes were recorded in the Nueva Villa Paraiso village, Huánuco, and in the Tastabamba community, Ayacucho, in November 2018. &nbsp; &nbsp; Commissioned and produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation. &nbsp; &nbsp; Produced with additional financial support from the Mondrian Fund. &nbsp; &nbsp; Director | Maya Watanabe&nbsp; &nbsp; Director of Photography | Sebastián Díaz Morales, Maya Watanabe&nbsp; &nbsp; Sound | German Popov, OMFO&nbsp; &nbsp; Special thanks:&nbsp; &nbsp; Dirección General de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas del Ministerio de Justicia y &nbsp; &nbsp; Derechos Humanos de Perú, Equipo Forense Especializado del Ministerio Público &nbsp; &nbsp; Fiscalía de la Nación de Perú, Comunidad de Tastabamba, Centro Poblado Nueva Villa Paraíso&nbsp; &nbsp; and the victims' families.&nbsp; &nbsp; Also to Gredna Landolt, Carmen Rosa Cardoza, José Carlos Agüero, Sofía Macher,&nbsp; &nbsp; Daniel Lagares, 80mts Livia Benavides gallery (PE) and Tegenboschvanvreden (NL). https://mayawatanabe.com/STASIS-2 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:41:41 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/STASIS-2 <img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0db3a4bf186500f17b878da60137d45f9e34b1846d82dd6f0163878b550cb44/_DSF8317.jpg" data-mid="127036023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0db3a4bf186500f17b878da60137d45f9e34b1846d82dd6f0163878b550cb44/_DSF8317.jpg" />Kyoto Art Center, 2021 <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db30ed79035247668fb987e8b2c7e437790b965b5fdc7190e93fbb8f1c02f897/_DSF8313.jpg" data-mid="127035845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db30ed79035247668fb987e8b2c7e437790b965b5fdc7190e93fbb8f1c02f897/_DSF8313.jpg" />Kyoto Art Center, 2021 Biostasis is a period of steady inactivity in which an organism, while remaining alive, undergoes the suspension of all its metabolic processes. Crucian carps can survive winter water temperatures below 0º by adopting a biostasis state, a combination of freeze-tolerance strategies and resistance to oxygen’s absence. Under that condition, bodily animation stops, metabolic processes cease, and cell’s energy is decreased to the bare minimum to keep the tissues alive. When the warm months come again and the water melts, carps resume their normal life functions. Guided by a scientist, Stasis creates the conditions for a crucian carp to activate its self-regulating system to undergo cryogenic preservation. By simulating and capturing these conditions Stasis searches for an “undead” state that hovers between the living and the non-living. Produced with additional financial support from the Mondrian Fund. Director | Maya WatanabeDirector of Photography | Sebastián Díaz Morales1st AC Focus Puller | Niels ZonnenbergSound designer | German Popov, OMFOAssistants | Daniel Jacoby, Nina StottrupSpecial thanks:Lucas Evers and Waag Society https://mayawatanabe.com/EARTHQUAKES-2 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:49:34 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/EARTHQUAKES-2 <img width="1918" height="1222" width_o="1918" height_o="1222" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8ecc5ea1f4f1381365d7d3fdbca418dad90950aa5267316305f423c09c6a8af/_DSF8286-Edit.jpg" data-mid="127036424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8ecc5ea1f4f1381365d7d3fdbca418dad90950aa5267316305f423c09c6a8af/_DSF8286-Edit.jpg" /> Kyoto Art Center, 2021 <img width="1910" height="1202" width_o="1910" height_o="1202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99f95294942fce12de30183c778b4b4eccd901379eb8bd25608f3b6ee47998a9/_DSF8272-Edit.jpg" data-mid="127036423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99f95294942fce12de30183c778b4b4eccd901379eb8bd25608f3b6ee47998a9/_DSF8272-Edit.jpg" /> Kyoto Art Center, 2021 <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0c7b5cb83c57fb6e41e0fd0f713276daaa8274401f2af26d862ccc8a63641c1/Earthquakes---Asian-art-biennial02.jpg" data-mid="106219033" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0c7b5cb83c57fb6e41e0fd0f713276daaa8274401f2af26d862ccc8a63641c1/Earthquakes---Asian-art-biennial02.jpg" /> Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2019 A landscape appears in the middle of a Japanese empty theatre. Without human intervention, a series of disruptive events magically unleash. The (un)natural disasters precipitate the scenography to collapse. As the video continues, the props' remnants left behind appear inexplicably recomposed again. &nbsp; &nbsp; Commissioned and produced by Kyoto Art Center &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-produced by Videobrasil &nbsp; &nbsp; Produced with additional financial support from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Director | Maya Watanabe&nbsp; &nbsp; Director of Photography | Fujii Sho&nbsp; &nbsp; Focus Puller | James Latimer&nbsp; &nbsp; Art Director | Miyashita Tadaya&nbsp; &nbsp; Sound | German Popov, OMFO&nbsp; &nbsp; Production Manager | Miyamoto Yoshio (-L .S .C-)&nbsp; &nbsp; Lighting | Sanwa Pro Light, Inc., Sogo Yohe (i RYU, Inc.)&nbsp; &nbsp; Translator | Arakawa Kosuke&nbsp; &nbsp; Special Thanks:&nbsp; &nbsp; Haruna Hirano, Aaron Berman, Jimba Keisuke, Morita Takumi, Mukai Mari, Nishida Hanji,&nbsp; &nbsp; Shimada Yoshitaka, Tategami Kotaro, Yoshimitsu Yoshiya, Thereza Farkas,&nbsp; &nbsp; León Chiprout, Jordi Abusada, Sebastián Díaz Morales. https://mayawatanabe.com/A-DESERT-1 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:01:44 +0000 mayawatanabe.com https://mayawatanabe.com/A-DESERT-1 <img width="1920" height="1097" width_o="1920" height_o="1097" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d58a873b178768ca4b5207e24fa682a263865b9ee219f8a55e32ed32492c56ea/Desierto-still-01.jpg" data-mid="106092772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d58a873b178768ca4b5207e24fa682a263865b9ee219f8a55e32ed32492c56ea/Desierto-still-01.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1097" width_o="1920" height_o="1097" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0aeb84a56f00db1dc6a4edb7c334797d0ff502c96be1f0966640e4ad3c5627d9/Desierto-still-02_b.jpg" data-mid="106092773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0aeb84a56f00db1dc6a4edb7c334797d0ff502c96be1f0966640e4ad3c5627d9/Desierto-still-02_b.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1097" width_o="1920" height_o="1097" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4102e2dbfa60ded57c0733e74c4e8da1af8bd9f1aa87ca37c01a48e3ba8c617a/Desierto-still-01_a.jpg" data-mid="106092771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4102e2dbfa60ded57c0733e74c4e8da1af8bd9f1aa87ca37c01a48e3ba8c617a/Desierto-still-01_a.jpg" />Still from video A scaled model reconstruction resembles the Peruvian post-conflict geography.The 20mt2 landscape acts as a puzzle. The elements in the maquette can change their distribution and they do it twice: in each, a long take flies over the landscape. When the two shots are shown together, we see the same model articulated in two different ways.The scenography becomes a failed representation of the world with the same fiction that separate memory from its representation. It's not about to reconstruct the past as it happened but to invite, as an archaeologist, to deepen in the different strata of memory and to consider that the history we re-experience through its remembrance, can only be fragmented and broken.CreditsDirector | Maya WatanabeDirector of Photography | Jose Luis SalomónCamera | Francisco Torrebejano (Polecamflight)Polecam operator | Diego Gallego Fernandez1st AC Focus Puller | Rafael Sierra GarciaSound | Bridge ToneLine producer | KnockoutdesignScale model assistants | Magdalena Juszczak, Maya OberSpecial thanksTaller Omnívoros, Juan Caño, Alfredo Morte, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Pepe Cobo, Jordi Abusada.