Leyla Cárdenas: “Re movido”

Oct 8, 2008 – Jan 31, 2009

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Casas Riegner is pleased to announce “Re movido” (Re movido), an exhibition of new works by Colombian artist Leyla Cardenas.

“Re movido” (Re moved), Leyla’s first solo show in Colombia, is constituted by onsite installations that intervene and transform the gallery space, semi-sculptural works thought of as small excavations, found and recovered fragments of paint, and drawings that speak of time as well as the house that contains the gallery.

As opposed to her previous projects where the artist establishes a close relationship with the remains of the city, in “Re movido” (Re moved) Cardenas chooses to work with the gallery space, a somewhat domestic environment. The artist regards the exhibition space as a temporary support that poses tensions, reverses what has already been accomplished and literally works with fragments of a broken reality, of hidden and forgotten news that are carefully pieced together.

Cardenas attempts to create works that serve as testimonies of a specific time and place, while at the same time acting as reflection processes that focus on the notions of time, absence, mutability, accumulation and reprocessing. As indicated by the title “Re movido” (Re moved), Cardenas’ creative process involves the removal of strata from a surface that transforms itself as the years go by. Like an archeologist, the artist detaches layers of time in an attempt to explore the history of the house containing the gallery, to recover what has remained in oblivion and to reveal the concealed side of a surface.

Born in Bogota, Colombia, Leyla Cardenas holds an MFA in Scultpure from UCLA. Recent exhibitions include: “Land Grab”, Apexart New York (2007); “Spectral Glimpse”, Platform Gallery, Seattle (2007); “Traces of Displaced Recollections”, D.E.N Contemporary Art in Culver City, California (2006) and “Topologías: materia en tránsito” Salón de Arte Joven BBVA, Casa de la Moneda, Bogotá (2006). Cardenas was recently awarded the MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California) top merit award for this year’s invitational-juried art competition.

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