TAKUYA WATANABE

Takuya Watanabe is a Japanese visual artist whose practice centres on video installation. His work explores themes of migration, labour, and the complex entanglements between people and their environments, grounded in close engagement with communities and in-depth research into social conditions. Watanabe examines how structural forces — shaped by the intertwining of history, institutions, markets, and ecology — crystallise in concrete bodies and specific spaces.

BIO
PROJECT: Japanese knotweed​​​​​​​
Movement, Classification, Responsibility
2024-
Good luck on your journey 
Single-channel video installation(video 24'32")
2019
Those Beneath the Grass
Video installation (video 10’ 14")
2024
When soil circulates through the blood
Single-channel video installation(video 12'59")
2025
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