Karma Kitchen

Workshop

11.09.25 · 18h at Tour à Plomb
20.09.25 · 16h30 at Espace Magh

Language : FR

All audiences

Duration: One-off intervention prior to the show

Place: Espace Magh

With Karma Kitchen, Kaliane Meret invites you to take part in a tasting experience that explores the intimate link between smells and memory, memories and cooking.

During the opening of the FAME Festival, the senses are awakened in two stages: to begin with, a tasting of mini brochettes with herbaceous, floral, peppery and rooty flavours, inspired by the vibrant portraits of the travelling saleswomen of Cambodia in the 1960s. Our mouths fill with sweet, sour, salty, soft and crunchy flavours. A discussion ensues about what the food looks like, smells like, feels like on the fingers and sounds like.

This is followed by an olfactory exploration using samples of scents, essential oils, plants, flowers and dried fruit to discover the perfumer’s olfactory pyramid, from the head to the heart to the bottom.

In her role as mediator and sensory imparter, Kaliane Meret has created the character of a well-being hostess. The philtre, the potion, the recipe, the fragrance and the story inspire her to create an intimate experience, in search of a universal. Kaliane Meret seeks to understand how memories shape tastes from one generation to the next, and how the transmission of the sense of taste can be linked to a territory, a history, a culture or even a diaspora.

Kaliane Meret

She began her higher education in Rochefort, where she obtained a BTS in business communications in 2008. After attending a workshop at the Château d'Oiron museum of contemporary art during her studies, she decided to change career path and embark on a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art in Bordeaux. She obtained her Master 1 in Plastic Art in 2012. Following this theoretical training, she entered the Institut Supérieur des Arts in Toulouse to work in a studio. She experimented with installations combining sculpture and set design, and obtained her DNAP in 2014. She completed her artistic training with a Masters in Visual Arts at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels in 2017. It was there that she began her performance career, drawing on the collective emulation she discovered in the Sculpture workshop. For a few years, she developed her practice around Karma Kitchen, a psychoactive experimental space that strives to convey the idea of decompartmentalising art, well-being and olfactory memory. More recently, she has been developing a new line of work inspired by family stories, opening the Kaun Kat chapter, about memories passed down from one generation to the next. She exhibits her work between France and Belgium, in a variety of formats including research residencies, group exhibitions and a solo show curated by Renewart Gallery. She also presents her work in performances and installations with the Frac Occitanie, the MCCS, Maison des Cultures de Molenbeek, Lieux-Communs Belgique, etc.