Can we go in a new direction?, by Gabriela Albergaria
The artist presents a site-specific project installed in a shipping container located in the square outside the Fonte Nova Shopping Centre, in Benfica.
For the installation Can we go in a new direction?, the artist combines the themes that have long characterised her work, linking cultural, historical and economic relations to nature in its Western tradition. In Gabriela Albergaria’s work, these relations are expressed and explored by reflecting on the garden and landscape (as natural spaces that have been designed, built and are managed) and on the acclimatisation/displacement of plants as a symbol of intensive, extractivist practices in the broader context of the colonial project (colonisation of nature).
Series
CAM in Motion
CAM in Motion is an outdoor programme featuring works from the Collection and site-specific interventions by selected artists, extending it to the entire metropolitan area of Lisbon.