Seiko Watanabe

Born in Tottori Prefecture in 1980. Graduated from the Second Faculty of Literature at Waseda University in 2002. Approaching photography as a form of ontology, the artist takes photographs, writes poetry and texts, and creates works using these alongside materials such as stone, sand, flowers, and glass. This practice is also considered a way of questioning the value of the photograph/work as it comes into being. Received an honorable mention at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography in both 2008 and 2013. Published the photobook「石の娘」with A-press in 2013. Recent presentations include: 2024「Time zones」(group exhibition / wavesproject / Yugawara), 2023「幽霊の道具」(group exhibition / Sprout Curation / Tokyo), 2023「花の妙」(residency production / BiteSite / Busan), 2022「Parfüme・火・自分だけの部屋」(residency production / Takenoma / Yokohama), 2022「Parfüme」(solo exhibition / Cy / Kamakura), 2021「Cancelled Order」(group exhibition / Rathenau Hallen / Berlin), 2019「Matrix Session」(group exhibition / KOMAGOME 1-14cas / Tokyo), among others.