Gabriela Albergaria: Nature Abhors a Straight Line

An artist's meditation on the history of human appropriation and manipulation of the plant world

Portuguese artist Gabriela Albergaria (born 1965) makes sculptures, installations, photographs and drawings that embody her systematic reflection on the taming of nature by humans as recorded in 18th-century botanical gardens through the introductions of nonnative plant species and other ecosystemic modifications.