Mélodie Razaka.
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Mélodie Razaka.

Multidisciplinary Artist · Ceramicist · Poet · Visual & Social Researcher

Who I am · my journey · my horizons

Born on the Côte d’Azur, my heart and my practice move ceaselessly between Europe and Japan. For me, clay, drawing, poetry, photography and cooking are not sealed compartments but the rhizomatic ramifications of a single, selfsame urgency: to give form to the invisible, and to mend our fractures.

I gather this research around three obsessions: a visceral love of Riviera colour, the earth held as a sacred talisman for my neurodivergence, and collective care (omotenashi) inherited from Malagasy oral traditions.

My sensitive trajectory · the journey

  1. Childhood & the dream

    Cradled from the age of six by the world of Magical Doremi, I let a secret wish take root: to one day anchor my life in Japan. This red thread would first lead me to Kobe, in 2011.

  2. The gaze · 2016

    My first artistic crystallisation, through photography, at Osaka University.

  3. Strategy & the institution · 2020–2022

    Immersed in cultural engineering in Kyoto. I ran communications and staged large-scale events (Nuit Blanche, Parisai) for the Institut français du Japon, weaving close ties between luxury houses, artists and more than 35 major institutions.

  4. Matter · 2023–2024

    A visceral need to come back to the body. A year of research and high ceramic craft at Ishoken (Tajimi).

  5. Today · 2026

    One foot on the French Riviera, one foot in the world. I share my time between my studio work and intercultural consulting, translating memory into raw matter.

Horizons · 2026–2027

Looking for an art residency · open to international residencies and studio collaborations, 2026–2027.

I devote my coming research seasons to international art residencies and large-scale curatorial projects, around two axes:

  • The Living Archive: capturing the emotional residue of collective fires through raw clay and luminescent glazes (mono no aware).
  • Social Architectures: creating culinary and relational performances to redefine the politics of care between Europe and Japan.