Gabriela Albergaria
Portugal
Gabriela Albergaria's (Vale de Cambra, 1965) work involves one territory: Nature. A manipulated nature, planted, transported, set in hierarchy, catalogued, studied, felt and recalled through the ongoing exploration of gardens in photography, drawing and sculpture. The artist views gardens as elaborated constructs, representational systems and descriptive mechanisms that epitomize a set of fictional beliefs that are employed to represent the natural world. Gardens are also environments dedicated to leisure and study, cultural and social processes that produce a historical understanding of what is knowledge and what is pleasure.
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2019, Nature Abhors a Straight Line, Culturgest, Lisbon; 2019, ...an adventure in which humans are only one kind of participant..., Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon; 2019, Natures’s Afterlives, Sapar Contemporary, New York; 2019, Ridge and Furrow (Vala e Cômoro), Painters Garden – Botanical Garden of the Art Center Casa da Cerca, Almada; 2018, Pinch Pinch Pinch, Projeto Intervenções, Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo; 2016, Ah, Al Fin Naturaleza, Flora ars+natura, Bogotá.
Group exhibitions (selection): 2021/2022, Tudo o que eu quero / All I Want – Artistas portuguesas de 1900 a 2020, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, and centre de création contemporain olivier debré, Tours, France; 2021, Zona da Mata, Part I MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; DRAWING POWER – CHILDREN OF COMPOST, Frac Picardie.
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2019, Nature Abhors a Straight Line, Culturgest, Lisbon; 2019, ...an adventure in which humans are only one kind of participant..., Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon; 2019, Natures’s Afterlives, Sapar Contemporary, New York; 2019, Ridge and Furrow (Vala e Cômoro), Painters Garden – Botanical Garden of the Art Center Casa da Cerca, Almada; 2018, Pinch Pinch Pinch, Projeto Intervenções, Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo; 2016, Ah, Al Fin Naturaleza, Flora ars+natura, Bogotá.
Group exhibitions (selection): 2021/2022, Tudo o que eu quero / All I Want – Artistas portuguesas de 1900 a 2020, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, and centre de création contemporain olivier debré, Tours, France; 2021, Zona da Mata, Part I MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; DRAWING POWER – CHILDREN OF COMPOST, Frac Picardie.
