Noriko Okaku + Ebe Oke "On the Birthday of Chimeras"

Monade Contemporary

Finished

Artists

Noriko Okaku, Ebe Oke

This exhibition explores the possibility of worlds in which people coexist across temporalities that exceed human conditions of survival and alongside different species. Okaku updates a project originally developed during a residency in Katsurao Village, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, which situates ‘electricity’— the force that drives contemporary society — within a newly imagined mythological lineage. Accompanied by the artist’s own spoken narration, the work seeks, through the structural medium of language, to prompt the audience to construct within their imagination a new constellation of myriad deities as they emerge in the present. Ebe, drawing on experiences shaped by time spent at a bird sanctuary in the southern United States, foregrounds non-human perspectives through paintings and sound works developed as a practice that critically examines the structures shaping identity, access, and inclusion. These works bring to the surface forms of resonance and affective traces that emerge across species and systems. When scientific theories, myths, information systems, and the life processes of animals and plants converge to appear as a single organism — or as an environment — how might human modes of survival and ethical frameworks be called upon to transform? We invite you to join the birthday of chimeras, where the condition of the human is questioned anew.

Schedule

Jan 17 (Sat) 2026-Jan 25 (Sun) 2026