What lies behind the chocolate bar that we see daily on the shelves of supermarkets? Is cocoa growing in Asian countries?

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The Asian Cocoa Project is an artistic and collective research project that aims at exploring the multiple stories of Asian cocoa and chocolate. With a holistic approach, it embraces historical, anthropological, cultural, ecological and socio-economic perspectives, not to mention cocoa's gastronomic facets.

Combining artistic expression and knowledge production, the project attempts to highlight the complexities and challenges at stake behind chocolate bars.

From early 2024, the project will unfold into an art exhibition featuring newly commissioned artworks created by established artists from accros the region. Entitled "In Stranger Lands: Cocoa's Journeys to Asia" it will tour in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the Philippines.