Invited by designer Harry Nuriev to exhibit at his Crosby Studios Gallery, Patrick Roger has installed a monumental chocolate endive in Paris – a living form. It stands nearly two metres tall and weighs 600 kilos. For the opening, the two artists performed a simple act together: the splitting of the sculpture. Under the blows, the material gave way. The chocolate bursts, shatters, flows. The form is released. The work does not disappear; it changes state. As the days go by, the installation continues to evolve. Visitors can continue the gesture, take a fragment of chocolate and leave with a piece of the sculpture.
Spring Vegetables
Chicory grows in the shade, underground. Delicate yet resilient, it embodies the idea of emergence. Chopped and scattered, it becomes a symbol of that moment when life bursts forth with the arrival of spring. The chocolate then sheds its original form to join the flow of life.
The Tortoise and the Chicory
In Patrick Roger’s seasonal shop windows, a Hermann’s tortoise appears surrounded by a patch of chicory. A reminder of an encounter in the Mediterranean scrubland. A silent face-to-face encounter. The tortoise, slow and resilient. The chicory, hidden underground before bursting into the light. At Crosby Studios Gallery, the chicory leaves the Patrick Roger shop windows to become a sculptural gesture. A material to be shared, to be transformed.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors are invited to carry on the gesture and take home a fragment of the sculpture.
Crosby Studios Gallery
8 Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris 6
10am – 6pm
Until 18 March 2026
Free access
