solanaceae

2025, Video HD, colour, sound,

1-channel, 4:18 min., 16:9

voice: Lui Lüdicke

A voice addresses us. It speaks from near the ground.
A voice from earth, ritual and oblivion.

It tells of a time when bodies were permeable: for rituals, for
states beyond heaviness. Of rubs that supposedly enable flying
— not as movement in space, but as falling out of order
and identity. Of bodies that forgot their limits.

The voice speaks of healing and intoxication, of pain relief and loss of control.
Of knowledge that was simultaneously used, revered and persecuted.

Towards the end, the perspective shifts:
Knowledge that does not come from observation, but from embodiment:
This is not about a plant—

The voice does not belong to a human being.
It speaks from another body.