Excision

A project for Art Positions, Art Basel - Miami Beach - 2012

by Leyla Cárdenas

Your hands hold fragments of a wall, a wall from an 1880s house built in Bogotá

during the Republican Period*.

These fragments can be read as puzzle pieces of a nation’s multiple failed

attempts to reconstitute itself, or as a door that enables traveling through time.

* (Post-independence and republicanism in Colombia (1824–1930)

*** This publication was conceived as parallel documentation of the piece exhibited at the fair.