Artist Statement/ Biography

Mot explore notions of alienation and the syncretic body as a currency; leading to an exegesis of the figure of the sacrificial scapegoat as the Hero’s foil; through the study of canned humour and subversive semantics underlined by words, characters and iconographies found on discarded objects of consumption, intimate space and everyday gesture through site specific endeavors.
Each work is considered to be a metaphorical postcard deeply embedded in his daily tribulations, whims, and dallying through subversive wordplays. Not exactly anchored in Installation nor video, new media or performance; the work finds its center rather conceptually through discarded and found items of daily consumption, intimate space, and everyday gestures.

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j.p.mot is a Khmer-Canadian conceptual artist born in Montreal. He completed a BFA in Visual and New Media Art (2009) and an MA in International Development in (2012), both at the university of Quebec in Montreal, and received an MFA in Visual Art at Columbia University in New York (2015). He took part in performance art festivals such as the Raflost Reykjavik Electronic festival and the Montreal’s Viva Art Action!; His installations has been part of numerous group shows in Canada, US, Mexico, Iceland, China and Thailand including Art Mûr, Montreal, Verticale, Laval, Espace F, Matane, Praxis, St-Hyacinthe, the Judith Charles Gallery, New York City, Fisher Landau Centre for the Arts, Long Island City, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore.