This exhibition—a selections of 32 works - was first presented in Cádiz, on the occasion of the 9th International Congress of the Spanish Language, as well as in London, Vienna, Braga, Washington, New York, Taiwan, Tokyo, and at the Cervantes Institutes in Rome, Frankfurt, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. It brings together the Migrantes and Kintsugi series, along with other recent compositions. This ensemble reflects the consistency of a gamble that, in its own way, knows how to move from epic-inspired poetry to the lyricism of reconstructed intimacy. Issa Watanabe's work is marked by an incontestably poetic spirit that envelops and reveals narrative spaces. In her most recent works, obscurity serves as a background and contrasts with the refined luminosity of the characters, who are endowed with touching allusions and subtle ironies that enhance the whole. The technique she has chosen allows her to achieve her goals: she draws and re-draws sketches, colours them in pencil, scans them, outlines them and mounts them on a digital black canvas, which she transforms into interlinked landscapes thanks to other chromatic elements. Beasts, birds, or bipedal domestic animals, which usually serve as emblems of identity, become in his illustrations an allegory of our diverse and suffering species, which sets out in search of a space conducive to its development and tries to interact in a spirit of solidarity.