Karma Kitchen

Workshop

11.09.25 · 18h

Language : FR

All audiences

Duration: 2h

Place: Riches-Claires

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.

Culinary fragrances, charged with singular reminiscences, come up without warning and weave a collective fabric where memories become bridges between generations.

These performative moments mutate according to the context in which they are shown, inducing sensitive experiences, building bridges between individual and shared memory. The questioning core of this visual ritual 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.

Playing a role of mediation and sensory transmission, Karma Kitchen makes use of a wellness hostess character to summon up the philtre, the potion, the recipe, the fragrance and the story, creating an experience that is both both intimate and universal. This formula is an invitation to make society, a performative menu where every mouthful sculpts the taste buds and every smell shapes the nasal wall.

At the FAME Festival, the senses will be awakened in two steps: first, a tasting of tiny skewers with herbaceous, floral, peppery and rooty flavours, inspired by the vibrant portraits of street vendors in Cambodia in the 1960s. Then, a sensible olfactory exploration, where a playful panel reveals the subtleties of the scents extracted from the perfumer’s pyramid, from top to middle to base.

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.