Fast food items including fries, a burger, and fried chicken on a table, with event details and artist names on top.

A curatorial menu exploring food as a universal language.

22 OCTOBER – 28 OCTOBER 2025

During the week of Art Basel Paris, ROBINEAU ART inaugurated its first exhibition in the French capital with Mon Chéri, J’ai Faim!

A curatorial menu exploring food as a universal language. Bridging economy, identity, and status, its meaning has only grown more complex in an era of consumerism and aestheticized dining.

Older than crowns and republics, food culture has carried symbolic weight across civilizations: from the Eucharist in Catholic ritual to the fast-food empire of McDonald’s, and now to recipes conceived through artificial intelligence. Food remains one of humanity’s most essential commodities, at once sustenance, ritual, and social marker.

Through painting, digital works, and installations, eight international artists engaged with these layered narratives. Their works probed how culinary rituals shape collective memory, question the politics of consumption, and reframe the act of eating as both intimate gesture and cultural spectacle.

Participating artists

Thomas Besset (France) - Zhou Song (China) - Muhamad Zaim (Malaysia) - Kebeyo Chen (China) - Nina Sechko (Russia) - Fabio Dourone (Spain) - Victor Ponomarenko (Russia) - Saint D (Paris)

View through a glass window of an art gallery with neon sign saying 'the taste in your mouth reflects your beliefs'. Interior features artwork on the walls and a person in the background.
Gallery wall with five artworks, some with objects resembling fast food, cosmetics, and an abstract painting, in a white-walled art gallery.
Contemporary artwork by Chinese artist Zhou Song installed by ROBINEAU ART during a pop up exhibition in Paris in le Marais during Art Basel Paris
A colorful painting depicting a fantasy plant with large bulbous roots and green leafy branches, surrounded by floating clouds and small flying creatures with antennae, all framed with a 3D decorative border of green vines and bugs.