Motto Paris

38 rue du Vertbois

75003 Paris

Sticky Little Deaths is a provocative collection of bite-sized poems that sometimes sting. The speaker moves through a clumsy terrain of intimacy, retrospectively reconstructed by the author who spent her own adolescence in isolation. In this way, the poems give voice to a self that might have been: a girl allowed to be altered by wanting and giving. In this half-imagined world of tender surrender, girlhood is a perennial garden that we lovingly regress to, regardless of the time of transformation.

Throughout these pages, the nectar of curiosity is made into honey through an excruciating and exciting process. We witness the sloppy harnessing of seduction across spring gardens, city parks, and the kitchen floor. Sometimes these changes happen in the sun, others under the moon — but they are all short, sweet, and sticky.

Giselle DaMier is a story writer who usually finds herself on Route 66 or the banks of the Seine. Her diverse portfolio stretches from magazine articles to award-winning screenplays. However, she has a deep passion for poetry and prose. Her surreal flash fiction has appeared in various literary magazines and this is her debut chapbook. Inspired by Anaïs Nin, E.E. Cummings, and Sappho, Giselle DaMier seeks to blend delicate language with indiscreet imagery.

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Maman sous cellophane
Marko Kolomytskyi

On view from 23 May until 15 June 2026 at Motto Paris.

“In the face of these intrusions, Marko Kolomytskyi’s work seems to affirm that continuity remains possible, and that forms of tenderness may still persist amid violence and rupture. His work reflects a particular attentiveness to the complex past of his family, his country, and his own trajectory. At a time when dominant narratives increasingly flatten identities and histories, Marko Kolomytskyi instead seeks to preserve their complexity. The mosaic of fragments composing the exhibition becomes a way of reflecting on what shapes us, while also questioning the often blurred boundaries between our personal histories and those of the territories from which we come.
The exhibition also reflects on what continues to circulate between people despite distance, war, and time: voices, images, gestures of protection — ways of sustaining a connection when places, people, or objects themselves become inaccessible. In this sense, Maman sous cellophane speaks to what still remains possible: rebuilding fragile continuities, inventing new forms of belonging, and preserving, amid the fragmentation of the world, a capacity for closeness, tenderness, and sensitivity.”
— Sasha Baydal

Tiohtiá:ke / Montréal
May 2026

Motto Paris
38 Rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

All works are available

MAMAN SOUS CELLOPHANE
Marko Kolomytskyi

Opening Friday 22.05 from 5pm 

Motto Paris

Motto invites you to MAMAN SOUS CELLOPHANE, a solo exhibition by Marko Kolomytskyi. Drawing on personal family photographs rescued from occupied Alchevsk and smuggled to Paris in a Russian artist’s suitcase, the work pairs each image with a major political event between Russia and Ukraine occurring on the same day or month — turning the caption into an act of intervention that shatters the innocence of the family archive. 

“I worked from my personal family archives – photographs and documents kept in my flat in Alchevsk. This project transforms private memory into a political perspective. My artistic gesture lies precisely in the act of captioning: I have selected dated images to systematically juxtapose them with major political events that occurred between Russia and Ukraine on the same day or in the same month as a family event.”

Marko Kolomytskyi was born in 1999 in Alchevsk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine. After spending seven years in Asia, including four in Japan, he lived in Canada before settling in Paris. Building on his previous artistic experience and driven by the need to develop his practice in a new context, he is currently studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Since 2021, he has been collaborating with Varvara Kornieieva as part of the duo SU Group, which explores memory and identity through hybrid media. Since 2022, he has also been working with Alisa Berger on projects combining film, performance and sound experimentation. In 2025, they presented RAPTURE at the Berlinale.

In 2023, he studied lithography at Tokyo University of the Arts, furthering his research into materiality and gesture. In 2025, he continued his training at IRCAM, developing his work around sound and experimental composition. That same year, he held his first solo exhibition in Japan and his works were showcased at the Polish Pavilion at WorldExpo Osaka 2025.

His artistic practice revolves around language, which he regards as his primary medium, and is expressed through installation, printmaking (lithography and linocut), performance, theatre and film. Inspired by conceptual art, his work combines reflection with poetic sensibility.He is the founder of MAYAK, a club for poets and writers in Paris, where he continues his research into the limits of language and collective expression.

Wedding Gigs. May 19, 2026

Geseling (Netherlands):

Focused and densely textured harsh noise project by Jim Breedveld (Charnel Ground/Crude Transmissions) combining scrap metal, field recordings, feedback and electromagnetic interference. 

@charnelground / @gegeselde

Vincent Dallas (Belgium):

Vincent Dallas is a noise connoisseur and absurdist with releases on Total Black, White Centipede Noise and Satatuhatta. One might also know him as one of the driving forces behind the legendary Noisefest in Kortrijk, Belgium. 

@vincent_dallas_

Genophobia (United States):

Crude textures and heavy frequencies by Abhorrent A.D.’s head honcho Branden Diven (Piercing, Knife City, etc..).

@melomaniadistro

Birthed (Berlin):

@birthed__

Soft Fantasy (Berlin): 

Soft Fantasy is the solo experimental noise project of Lo Moran that conjures a relentless blend of harsh noise, power electronics and the sepulchral melodies of dirge pop laced with an industrial edge.

@lo.and.behold._ / @soft__fantasy

Doors: 7pm
10-15 euro sliding scale

Motto (Wedding)

Schererstr. 9 (behind Silent Green)

Institut fuer Aless Moegliche

NEVER DATE A SK8ER BOY

Maxime Muller

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This Saturday at @mottobooks
FROM 7pm

BRIDE (Berlin)
Jonathan Bergen (Berlin)
Dead Door Unit (Philadelphia, PA)
Max Julian Eastman (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dead Door Unit (Philadelphia, PA)
@k.p.g

Dead Door Unit is the primary alias of K. Geiger, who also operates the limited-run imprint, French Market Press. Wider scale releases have been previously released by Tribe Tapes, RRRecords, American Tapes & more. It’s anyone’s guess as to what will happen in the live setting for this project.
Noise with no entertainment value, since 2022.

Max Julian Eastman (Philadelphia, PA) @m.j.eastman

Founder of US-based Tribe Tapes label, solo work embraces broken tape sounds and abject psychedelia — harsh and strange music

BRIDE @abrideabride

Esme Rebora is a Berlin-based experimental noise musician, composer, sound and visual artist, mainly operating the moniker Bride.
Rebora’s work has been highlighted by labels Psychic Liberation, Post Hoc, Industrial Coast and Longform Editions. They also run the label Alloy Choir.

Jonathan Bergen @
Jonahtan is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist working across sound, visual art, and performance art. His practice spans ambient and noise, alongside graphic design and collage works. He has released work with Vaagner, Pressor Tapes, and Instruments of Discipline.

At this event, he will perform a cut-up noise set.

Collaboration with Body Stress: https://instrumentsofdiscipline.bandcamp.com/album/autoerotic-id-face-scan

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10-15 eur sliding scale – no one turned away by lack of funds
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