A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey is a project that uses bees as a lens to explore how humans inhabit the world, how we organize, value, and care for what surrounds us. Where there are flowers, there are bees, and each territory weaves with them a singular bond.

Moving from the dry forests of the Chaco to the Atlantic rainforest of Misiones and into the heart of Buenos Aires, the project follows beekeeping families, Indigenous Mbya Guaraní communities, and urban beekeepers whose lives are deeply intertwined with pollinators and place.

Through three interconnected stories, honey becomes a way of tasting a landscape. Linden, eucalyptus, or native forest dissolve on the tongue, revealing the ecosystems that sustain us. For centuries, we described the hive as a royal court, projecting onto it our hierarchies and models of power. Today, we begin to understand it as a superorganism, a collective body in which the queen is not a sovereign ruler, but part of a horizontal system sustained by workers. The hive becomes not a metaphor of domination, but of interdependence.

In Misiones, native yateí bees produce a scarce and sacred honey used in Mbya Guaraní medicinal and spiritual practices. In the Impenetrable Chaco, organic honey from bees adapted to the dry forest has become both livelihood and a strategy for conservation in territories threatened by deforestation. In Buenos Aires, feral colonies rescued from building walls remind us that nature and city are not opposites, but overlapping ecologies.

Each hive reveals a distinct way of understanding life, and invites us to imagine futures where human and ecological survival are inseparable.