The garden has been a realm of imaginative speculation and potential for generations of artists. In her Taipei Dangdai debut with Hashimoto Contemporary, painter Bianca Nemelc builds on a legacy of progressive thinkers, melding art historical references from the tropics with familial narratives to create a garden that transcends the confines of reality where humans and nonhumans merge seamlessly. Rendered in vibrant colors and elegant brush strokes, these acrylic on canvas paintings cast Brown women as formidable mountains and fierce jaguars. In an installation designed specifically for Nemelc’s new works, these lush paintings compel us to reassess anthropocentric worldviews and how our perceptions of women are tangled with our conceptions of nature, manifesting a space as heterogeneous and blended as…