Protoplast is an artist group from Basel consisting of three anonymous artists who have been generating artifacts since their founding in 1990. In their first exhibition in St.Gallen, the collective, faced with almost fifty years since the end of the war, addresses the urgent question of how one can, should, must, or wants to deal today with historically loaded words, terms, even models of thought. Taking the word "Heil", originally wonderful in sound and content, as a starting point, Protoplast develops the exemplary installation "heil" for the Kunsthalle St.Gallen, made of wool, cardboard, carpet and embroidery, in order to rescue this term from the clutches of historical entanglement and to dare an attempt at its healing.