Anya Gallacio About Her Installation ‘Stroke’

Stroke by Anya Gallaccio at Jupiter Artland, UK, 2014

The description of the video: “Anya Gallacio returns to Jupiter Artland with her second gallery installation “Stroke”. This exhibition follows the dramatic “Red on Green”, the artists first gallery installation at Jupiter Artland where ten thousand fragrant English red roses were laid as a carpet on the gallery floor and left to slowly rot and wither over the course of the summer in 2012.

For Spring 2014 the artist will install “Stroke”, an extraordinary installation which assaults the senses. The entire room is covered in thick dark chocolate, lightly scented if not overwhelming. The desire to interact by picking, licking or stroking the chocolate covered walls is almost compulsive. What is beautiful as so often in this artists practice, becomes putrid and decayed.

Gallccio is part of the permanent collection with The Light Pours Out of Me, a contemporary folly enchanted with Amethyst stone.

This exhibition has been sponsored by The Chocolate Trading Company.”