Artist and designer April Banks’ first solo exhibition (running now at The Gallery at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco) is all about chocolate, the sweet substance that drives bitter conflict around the world. Tracing the cacao industry from Cuban and Ghanaian farms through the New York Board of Trade to consumers, Banks examines “the complex relationship between the guilt and desire of eating chocolate.”

In addition to photography, sculpture, and graphic design in her exhibit, April Banks collaborated with local artists in creating a ‘micro chocolate shop’ that “will offer products inspired by and based on chocolate.”

While art that follows a industry from producer to consumer is slowly slipping towards cliche, the issues raised by such work – fair trade, sustainability, etc. – do and should matter.

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