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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Maya Watanabe

Maya WATANABE (1983, Peru) is a visual artist and filmmaker working primarily with video installation. Her work explores perception, violence and the limits of representation, often through spatialised moving-image environments. She has presented work at institutions including De Pont Museum in Tilburg, MAXXI in Rome, Sharjah Art Foundation, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Fridericianum in Kassel, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and MASP in São Paulo. Her work has also been shown at international biennials and festivals such as Manifesta, Videobrasil and the Havana Biennial. Based in Amsterdam, Watanabe teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Filmography

A·phan·ousia (2008, short), Abrasis (2009, short), El Contorno (2011, instal), Sceneries / Escenarios (2014, instal), Earthquakes (2017, instal), Stasis (2018, instal), Liminal (2019, instal), Zhùr (2024, instal)

Maya Watanabe at IFFR

  • Jarkov

    Maya Watanabe | 25' | Italy |

    Jarkov, a remarkably well-preserved 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth encased in a Siberian permafrost tunnel, becomes the focal point for exploring time and matter beyond human grasp.