Most recently, I worked on Uru-ku: The Forgotten Disciplines, an exhibition open until the end of June at Casarão Galeria de Arte in the Espírito Santo State of Brazil. This show was borne from a three-month residency in Viana, a town in the region to which I proposed the question: What are the smells that keep the memory of a town alive? Intending to portray the town’s smell landscape, the show consists of a video projected behind a construction of 750 branches dipped in fiery red Brazilian urucum, a powder that emits a peculiar smell. I also present two installations in connection to two other communities: a photographic installation documenting the Book of Smells, an archival book with medicinal plants once understood by the town’s ancestors squeezed between its pages in order to retain the now forgotten knowledge; and a collaborative installation for which individuals in the town place objects representing smell memories into 300 differently shaped “smell flasks.” I will continue this collaborative project after the exhibition closes by collecting “smell flasks” from residents of other communities in different countries. I used the perception of smells as a way to augment the citizens’ awareness of their history, and to redefine their relationship to one another and to their locale.