The exhibition “Nature hates straight lines”, by Gabriela Albergaria, curated by Delfim Sardo, will open this Saturday, May 14, at 17:00 pm, at the Municipal Museum of Tavira – Palácio da Galeria, where it will be on view until October 8.
This is the artist's first anthological exhibition, covering the last 18 years of her work, in the various media she has been using, from sculpture, to drawing, through photography and the production of multiples.
«The central question that the exhibition presents is that of the border zone and conflict between Nature and the modern process of its appropriation and domination, treated from various situations that resort to the history of migration of plant species, their cultural and and, finally, to its violent exploitation», explains the Municipality of Tavira.
In addition to the reconstitution of a large-scale work, central to the artist’s career, the exhibition presents sets of pieces that resulted from trips carried out in the Amazon or in the Redwood National Park, a North American forest park where some of the most remarkable species of this continent proliferate.
The exhibition is, according to the Municipality, «not only a critical reflection on our relationship with nature, but also on the way we face the representation of nature and its time in us».
“A Natureza Detesta Linhas Rectas” is organized by Culturgest, in Lisbon, where it was presented for the first time between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. The exhibition brings together 27 works, some of them produced specifically for this occasion, belonging to different collections. private and institutional, such as the State Contemporary Art Collection or the Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, and also includes a short documentary video with a selection of projects that the artist carried out in the public space.
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