Anne-Claire Mackenzie-Trujillo

You are not just a viewer—you are a participant.
Before the work reveals itself, you are invited to hold a glass of ceremonial cacao.
Breathe in its scent. Taste what lingers. Feel its presence.
This gesture is not decorative—it is the entry point. A moment of slowness.
My work explores chocolate as a living, shapeshifting material—sensual, symbolic, and historically charged.
This project began with a question: What becomes of cacao?
Once sacred, now commodified, cacao holds memory and transformation.
Two large-format canvases bloom with dark chocolate—what industry sees as flaw, I reclaim as poetry.
Ten bean-to-bar chocolate pieces, wrapped in silkscreened prints made with chocolate ink, blur the line between object and image, art and consumption.
This is a contemporary cacao ceremony—an intimate space where ritual meets critique,
and where taste becomes a tool for remembering, feeling, and reimagining.