The Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca presents the installation “Hierbas Malas” inside the 1920s garden with boxwood hedges. The “giardini all’italiana” are the emblem of nature manipulated by man according to parameters of geometry and symmetry, choosing plant species with allegorical values or for the color they assume in different seasons, preferring evergreens. Balseca brings into this harmonic enclosure a series of extraneous plants, many of which come from the surroundings of the villa, critically adding artifice to natural artifice. Wild and infesting plants, transplanted into what used to be containers of motor oil or other objects from the Villa’s stores. From the Amazon to the Mediterranean scrub, gardens in the age of petro-capitalism are no longer idealized places, but grounds intended for new perspectives, both human and vegetable.