Jean-Pierre Mot
Annoted pictures
Instagram stories
ABOUT THE WORK
Through annotations, this Instagrammable work through personal archive pokes light jabs on the subject of Asians being seen as a foil to privilege and a scapegoat for identity politics – somewhat of a buffer to gatekeep class/race disparity and an 'acceptable' output for triggered anger toward the perfect subaltern. As we are humble and nice, we nod and smile... as a model minority.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
J.p.mot is a Khmer-Canadian-Muslim conceptual artist born in Montreal and who now shares his time between New York, Montreal and Beijing. He completed a BFA in Visual and New Media Art (2009) and an MA in International Development (2012) at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and received an MFA in Visual Art at Columbia University in New York (2015). He has been supported by the Quebec Art and Letter Council (2011–2013), the Canada Art Council (2018), the NARS Foundation (2018, 2020), the Asia Art Archive in America (2019–2020) and the New York Foundation for the Art (2020).