Leyla Cárdenas: “Con posición Descompuesta”
May 26th – July 24th, 2010
Botánica de asfalto (detail)
Digital Gliclée print.Con Posición Descompuesta
Paint, rods, string. 5.96 x 4.50 x 3.61 cmCon Posición Descompuesta (detail)
Paint, rods, string. 5.96 x 4.50 x 3.61Entre Piso y Techo
Wooden stips, demolition ceiling material. Variable dimensionsPosición
Digital Gliclée print, rods. 46 x 65 x 5 cmAna-lysis 6
Digital Gliclée print. 120 x 82 x 6 cm
Casas Riegner Gallery presents Colombian artist, Leyla Cárdenas’ exhibition Con Posición Descompuesta. The show includes photographs, installations and sculptural pieces that “explore, recompose and modify images and fragments of urban ruins”. She breaks down photographs into different pieces and rearranges them to allow the different elements that make the composition to be seen and appreciated. She uses the building’s natural aging process and structure as part of in situ installations where these are evidence of time-passing and memory.
Leyla Cárdenas keeps exploring themes that have interested her for some time. She intervenes specific spaces within the gallery. With sculptural pieces made in situ, the real condition of the architectural space is considered and incorporated into the work. Both literally and symbolically, she peels off layers that cover up the past of the building she works with.
This is Leyla Cardenas’ second exhibition at Casas Riegner Gallery. Her first solo exhibition Re movido was shown at the beginning of 2009.