Evelyne Raje
Experience 1
2021
Decolonize Belgian chocolate
How to make
Belgian chocolate with local resources and question its colonial heritage?
I collected soil in Belgium and followed the steps of making chocolate using this soil.
Chocolate is one of the resources which consumption originated from colonization and which today results in an imbalance of wealth between the raw product, cocoa, mostly produced in Africa, and the transformed product made in Europe, chocolate.
This performance is part of a series that questions the colonial heritage which persists over time and generations in Europe, through food and gestures.
I collected soil in Belgium and followed the steps of making chocolate using this soil.
Chocolate is one of the resources which consumption originated from colonization and which today results in an imbalance of wealth between the raw product, cocoa, mostly produced in Africa, and the transformed product made in Europe, chocolate.
This performance is part of a series that questions the colonial heritage which persists over time and generations in Europe, through food and gestures.