Nancy La Rosa: A garden as a heap of disturbance
Opening hours: Thursday > Saturday, 14:00-18:00
Nancy La Rosa, a former WIELS resident, brings her latest work to AFFILIATE, a space where alumni of the WIELS Residency Programme present their recent projects.
Opening: Wednesday 12.11.2025, 18:00-21:00
Presentation : 13.11—29.11.2025, 14:00-18:00 (open Thursday > Saturday)
AFFILIATE : rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, 1000 Brussels
Free access
Courtesy the artist.
At Affiliate, Nancy La Rosa presents A Garden as a Heap of Disturbance, a selection of works from a series that began during her residency at WIELS. This exhibition focuses on botanical archives, exploring the presence of plant extraction and their natural vitality.
Drawing on locations such as the Meise Botanical Garden, the River Senne, archive collections, and the Amazon, the artworks reveal how the presence of nature disrupts official archives, single-story narratives, and spaces silenced by erasure.
Bio
Nancy La Rosa uses installation, video, drawing, and printmaking to deconstruct the ways power operates through systems of representation poetically. Exploring the colonial legacies embedded in historical archives, she challenges the Western appropriation of local narratives by creating counter-narratives through images and sounds. With a focus on extractive capitalism and its impact on land, La Rosa traces the life of extracted matter such as minerals, stones and plants. She observes their flow and seeks to understand their hidden vitality and agency as active forces that shape meanings and reciprocal relationships among humans, non-humans and the land.