Jean-Pierre Mot explores packaging, slogans, and everyday objects in an exhibition between micro and memory.
Prepare for a week of site-specific creation, chance encounters, and urban experimentation! As part of the conclusion of the La jachère cycle and the beginning of Micro, artist Jean-Pierre Mot takes over Le Labo with an exhibition halfway between installation and research: recovered objects, literary references, and images from our consumer society.
Working primarily in situ, Mot develops a practice attentive to the environments he traverses. He observes, collects, and assembles. Food packaging, kraft bags, printed slogans: these everyday materials, far from being anecdotal, condense logics of production, consumption, and the dissemination of imaginaries. Mot plays with them.
Drawing from research conducted in 2025 and 2026 at the Cité internationale de la langue française (France) and at Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai), the exhibition brings into dialogue seemingly distant universes, such as Japanese animation and the work of Alexandre Dumas, for example. These juxtapositions reveal common narratives of heroes seeking recognition while exposing their distortions across time and contexts. At the heart of the installation, a kinetic sculpture introduces a minimal yet insistent temporality. Two images alternate, like a rudimentary GIF. The movement, repetitive and without resolution, presents a form of identity in suspension. In parallel, a screen presenting The Yabi.Deh Project extends this reflection into a digital environment. Using keywords related to artistic mediums such as painting, sculpture, or photography, collected from various websites, the project maps their presence according to cities, countries, and regions. It reveals trends: certain mediums more visible in certain places, others less present, or even absent. More than a tool, it is a critical device that questions the very conditions of recognition of artistic practices: where, how, and for whom does art become legible, legitimate, or marginal?
Opening reception on Thursday, May 28 at 5:30 PM
Reserve through the registration link, free admission.
About the Artist
Jean-Pierre Mot
“My research focuses on the reappropriation of the Orientalist gaze conveyed by colonial ethnologists. In my artistic approach, conceptual by nature, I use chance and fortuitous encounters as a creative method. This results in multimedia installations composed of diverse assemblages, giving rise to satire and subversive semantics. These are underscored by words, characters, and iconographies found on discarded packaging, consumer objects, architectural details, and everyday gestures, through site-specific interventions. I also use marketing, food, and technology in a dreamlike manner to divert information. I am interested in notions of consumption, mass production, and media representations through the study of labor, colonial imaginaries, body politics, and the remnants of the Anthropocene.“
