Bénédicte Ramade ///
Gabriela Albergaria, Deconstructing Nature

For a long time now there has been the habit of bringing true nature into the places of art. Representation occupies a preponderant place there, but for about the last forty years it has not been exceptional to exhibit natural showings that have been brought out of their places. Of course, when an artist touches the natural or explores the metaphoric and symbolic, the amalgam is made from here on with a green ethics. There will be a focusing on the green extent of the gesture, independently of the medium of expression, gradually forgetting the artistic and aesthetic processes this places. Nowadays, public and critical reception is obsessed by what is ecologically correct, a green environment magma, the game of which is difficult to dominate.

When one contemplates Gabriela Albergaria’s work one is tempted to make a superficial, eco-friendly reading. Yet there is much more than this. Although one may initially focus only on her critical analysis of the notions of natural and artificial, Albergaria’s works are not content to surf in the curiosity made culpable by the natural.