Gabriela Albergaria's work is based on the awareness that nature is an artificial and cultural construction, the result of human intervention in the landscape over millennia. Issues related to the circulation, manipulation and domestication of plant species for subsistence and recreational purposes (agriculture, gardening, landscape architecture) are explored in research that crosses individual sensory experience with scientific research procedures. Always working from existing territories (ecosystems and specific places whose identity has been produced or affected by the action of man), Gabriela Albergaria develops work in which methodology is central: the artist visits the space, records it through drawing or photography and collects some elements. In her studio, she works from memory, collected traces, documentation and research, and can develop several works based on a single reference.

In his reflection on the relationship between the natural world, humankind and culture, gardens and parks are a recurring theme: environments historically related to leisure and study, they are the manifestation of nature transported, transformed, studied, hierarchised, catalogued, aestheticised and even fictionalised. In - Parc Malou 15.31.16
- a reference to the largest and oldest public park in the Brussels region - the processes of landscape acculturation are evoked through a diptych construction in which photography and drawing oppose and complement each other as processes of recording and perceiving reality (or its appearance). Through this dichotomy, the artist combines analytical observation with her subjective and psychological experience of nature, reinforcing the idea that the “natural” is always something constructed - a system of social and cultural representation that is collective, but also individual.