Tomorrow’s Harvest

Ohkojima Maki engages in creative activities with the theme of “life that circulates in a distorted way, becoming entangled, tangling, and unraveling” and has participated in residency programs in India, Poland, China, Mexico, France, and other countries. In 2017, she took part in scientific exploration aboard the research vessel Tara in the Tara Pacific project as an individual artist. Through collaborations with scientists and technical experts, Ohkojima has observed the ecosystems of creatures inhabiting the ocean, and created art that expresses the complex processes of life and death. In 2023, she formed an art unit with Tsuji Yosuke under the name “Ohkojima Maki.” Employing a variety of artistic media, the unit portrays the dynamic response of life on a planetary timescale over billions of years.
In addition to motifs pertaining to the global environment, like forests or the land, volcanoes, oceans, minerals, and mud, the art of Ohkojima Maki contains motifs such as birds, snakes, whales, slime mold, primates, deer, chimeras, and embryos. Through images of life going through a continuous cycle of intermingling, viewers can sense the artist’s imagined landscape, which empathizes with the perspective of diverse environments and the other, continually transforming into something more than human.
Ohkojima Maki is presenting at two venues at Aichi Triennale 2025—the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum. Tomorrow’s Harvest, which depicts the symphony of organisms forming relationships in which they live through the seasons together, eating and being eaten, and Agorá of Multi species, which reconsiders the soil and life, and the environment and interspecies relationships, based on Ohkojima’s experience giving birth in Mexico, allow you to fully appreciate this artistic world that calls to mind the many feelings, species, and places ranging from a planetary time scale to human politics.

Agorá of Multi species - SETO 2025

Ohkojima Maki engages in creative activities with the theme of “life that circulates in a distorted way, becoming entangled, tangling, and unraveling” and has participated in residency programs in India, Poland, China, Mexico, France, and other countries. In 2017, she took part in scientific exploration aboard the research vessel Tara in the Tara Pacific project as an individual artist. Through collaborations with scientists and technical experts, Ohkojima has observed the ecosystems of creatures inhabiting the ocean, and created art that expresses the complex processes of life and death. In 2023, she formed an art unit with Tsuji Yosuke under the name “Ohkojima Maki.” Employing a variety of artistic media, the unit portrays the dynamic response of life on a planetary timescale over billions of years.
In addition to motifs pertaining to the global environment, like forests or the land, volcanoes, oceans, minerals, and mud, the art of Ohkojima Maki contains motifs such as birds, snakes, whales, slime mold, primates, deer, chimeras, and embryos. Through images of life going through a continuous cycle of intermingling, viewers can sense the artist’s imagined landscape, which empathizes with the perspective of diverse environments and the other, continually transforming into something more than human.
Ohkojima Maki is presenting at two venues at Aichi Triennale 2025—the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum. Tomorrow’s Harvest, which depicts the symphony of organisms forming relationships in which they live through the seasons together, eating and being eaten, and Agorá of Multi species, which reconsiders the soil and life, and the environment and interspecies relationships, based on Ohkojima’s experience giving birth in Mexico, allow you to fully appreciate this artistic world that calls to mind the many feelings, species, and places ranging from a planetary time scale to human politics.