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December 16, 2025
j.p.mot will discuss his solo exhibition 'Chomping Around' in conversation with Aditi Kini.
Tuesday, December 16, 6-7 PM
NARS Project Space, 2nd Floor
As part of our Art in Dialogue series, NARS Foundation is pleased to present an artist talk featuring j.p.mot in conversation with Aditi Kini, discussing his solo exhibition, Chomping Around. The talk will be followed by a brief Q&A with the audience.
This program offers a final opportunity to engage with the exhibition, on view through December 16. Visitors are welcome to arrive early to view the exhibition.
Chomping Around is new exhibition moving about while chewing noisily with allégresse. The exhibition will feature a collection of work including, collage, sculpture, prints and mixed media pieces, like a figurative nom nom nom. It conveys a sense of restlessness on the go; It conjures a vivid, sensory-rich image of someone or something eagerly biting into the city — not just its food, but its energy, chaos, and opportunity. It evokes appetite, ambition, and motion.
About the artist:
j.p. mot is a cross-disciplinary researcher, conceptual artist, educator, and creative technologist born in Montreal and of Cambodian origin who mainly works between Montreal and New York. His art explores themes of identity, consumerism, and immigration through found objects, discarded packaging, and commercial imagery, creating satirical and subversive narratives that engage with the zeitgeist. He holds a BFA and MA from the University of Quebec in Montreal and an MFA from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Iceland, Singapore, China, and Thailand. Numerous organizations, including the Canada Art Council, the Quebec Art and Letters Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts have supported him. He is the recipient of the Polygone award for experimental art.
His work has been highlighted in contemporary art magazines such as Vie des Arts, Maake Magazine, and esse, among others. Recently, he was welcomed in numerous residencies, including NARS Foundation, Est-Nord-Est, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Banff Art Centre, and Cité International de la Langue Française, among others.
He is a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in the Department of Graduate Communication Design.
About the moderator:
Aditi Kini writes prose, scripts, and text objects from an office with butterscotch walls in Queens. And now, Hyde Park, where Aditi just started a PhD studying environmental humanities at the University of Chicago. Oriental Cyborg (2024), a collection of notes, jokes, and queries on race, automata/automation, and globalization, won Essay Press’s Chapbook Prize.
