A Home Care – machine learning (2020) is an installation-performance piece from a cycle of works entitled eaux et atopies (2019–2021) in which Monika Emmanuelle Kazi explores the circulation of water in the domestic space and the body as an instrument of memory and cultural vector. The artist, who initially trained as an interior designer, is interested in how our bodies are conditioned by our living spaces and the elements that surround us. 

In the performance A Home Care - machine learning, five performers work in a “kitchen”, represented by a carpet of earth. They transform water into milk using Nido powder – a Swiss industrial product that is massively exported to West Africa as a substitute for liquid milk. With this work, the artist reflects on the importance of the kitchen as a domestic place where food is prepared but also where culture is learnt and transmitted almost automatically through the repetition of simple, everyday gestures. By staging an industrialized food product from globalized trade, she questions our declining relationship with the earth and its products as well as the influence of the agri-food industry on our habits, traditions, diets and health.