This project was developed within the Biennale of Western Balkans (BoWB), as part of the Art Pluriverse program.
Developed by Nikos Voyiatzis and Antigoni Cheilari in collaboration with the cultural association of Pera Melana.
The project explores medicinal plants as living archival systems, embedded in oral transmission and embodied knowledge.
Traditional healing practices are treated as distributed epistemologies, outside institutional scientific classification.
Plants are understood not as objects of study but as agents of memory, embedded in landscape, care, and repetition.
Hands function as interfaces of transmission—gestural, tactile, and intergenerational carriers of knowledge.
Knowledge is not stored in institutions but distributed across bodies, landscapes, and informal cultural systems.
Healing practices are situated, local, and relational rather than universal.
Memory is not only recorded—it is performed through gesture, touch, and care.
Plants, hands, and community knowledge form a non-institutional archive where care functions as a method of preservation.