A HOME CARE II is co-curated within the frame of the "WHY DOES THE FLAMINGO LOSE ITS COLOR?" artistic program by VU.CHUV - Art at the Hospital (Lausanne) in partnership with foodculture days.

Originally trained in interior architecture, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi is interested in how our bodies are conditioned by living spaces and the elements that surround us. Following her first collaboration with foodculture days in 2023 (A Home Care machine learning, in which she occupied the kitchen space), the artist continues her exploration, this time focusing on the laundry room. For Kazi, this water space is often relegated to the margins of artistic and social narratives, despite the fact that it crystallizes processes of transformation, rehabilitation, and purification.

In A Home Care II, a duo of performers engages in a ritual of mutual care, exploring the emotional weight of routine gestures and their potential resonance beyond the domestic space. This work extends the artist's research on bodily memory and machine learning systems, questioning how everyday gestures shape our identities and are transmitted as movement repertoires inscribed over time. If machines learn through repetition, so do our bodies. Washing gestures—whether related to laundry, skin, or surfaces—form a living archive, a silent language that testifies to our individual and collective histories. Through a performative staging, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi weaves connections between self-care and care for others, between intimate memory and historical narratives. By diverting the primary function of the laundry room, A Home Care II transforms this space into a site of interaction and transmission, where dynamics of repair and reappropriation unfold. Far from being a mere place of maintenance, the laundry room becomes a space of rewriting, where each gesture resonates as a committed and poetic act.