Maya Watanabe

Born in 1983 in Lima, Peru
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain

“In Maya Watanabe’s videos, this stream of words, and silences, of others are beautifully interweaved but not, as it would seem natural, to redefine the question about identity but to resolve it.

It is said, It is silenced, things. What Maya has found in the verbal language is transferred to the visual field. To see makes us subjects of the video. To be subject of a video is to see with the images of others, to whom they don’t belong either.”

Mario Montalbetti

Exhibitions
2012 – Generación 2012 – La Casa Encendida, Madrid, España
2011 – 17º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea SESC_VIDEOBRASIL – SESC Belezinho, São Paulo, Brasil
2011 – What’s on your mind – World Bank Washington, Washington DC, USA
2011 – The art of storytelling – The Cutting Room, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, Inglaterra
2010 – Maya Watanabe, vídeos 2005-2009 – Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Perú
2010 – FILE, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica – SESI’s Art Gallery, Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo, Brasil
2009 – Del Insilio al Exilio – Festival Transitio MX, Espacio Alameda, México DF, Mexico
2009 – 798 Bienal de Beijing – 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2008 – Madrid Abierto 08 – La Casa Encendida, Madrid, España