In Spring Vegetables, Patrick Roger and Harry Nuriev explore transformation through material and form, with a chocolate sculpture becoming an evolving gesture. On display from 13th to 18th March at Crosby Studios Gallery, this living installation centres on the symbolic act of crushing endives—an organic metaphor for emergence. Invited by Nuriev, Roger presents a monumental chocolate endive, standing at almost two metres tall and weighing 600 kilos. It is installed as both a sculpture and a performance piece.
At the opening, the artists initiated the work by splitting the form. The chocolate fractured, softened and began to transform, shifting from a fixed object into a fluid, evolving presence. Rather than disappearing, the sculpture changes state over time, embodying the passage from concealment to release — echoing the natural growth of chicory, which emerges from darkness into light.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate by breaking off and taking away fragments of the sculpture. Through this participatory act, the work transcends the gallery space and dissolves into a shared experience. Grounded in the dialogue between art, nature, and ephemerality, Spring Vegetables reimagines sculpture as something to be touched, altered, and ultimately set in motion.
Courtesy of PATRICK ROGER and HARRY NURIEV
