Structures of Time
This exhibition brings together the practices of Carlos Rojas, Leyla Cárdenas and Linda Pongutá, three artists from different generations of Colombian art who, through distinct languages and materials, explore how matter and space can reveal diverse ways of recording, containing and transforming time.
The works gathered here depart from elements of the material world — geometric structures, historical images, architectural fragments, and organic and industrial materials — bring to light transformation processes that traverse landscape, architecture and territory.
The abstract compositions of Carlos Rojas, belonging to the series Mater Materia, investigate the structure of space and the relationship between form, knowledge and nature, through geometric systems and color modulations.
Leyla Cárdenas, in her project Periplo entre dos mundos, works from nineteenth-century engravings of the Colombian landscape that, when unraveled and reconfigured, question colonial representations of the territory and reveal its multiple historical, geological and human layers.
Linda Pongutá's work, in turn, develops from material processes linked to wear, filtration, and transit. In her pieces, fabric functions as a permeable surface — a filter where materials are deposited, trickle down or sediment, allowing matter to breathe and transform over time. Some of these processes incorporate a degree of unpredictability, in which factors such as gravity, humidity or absorption determine the final form of the work.
Together, the works of Rojas, Cárdenas and Pongutá propose different ways of thinking about time — not as an abstract dimension, but as a force that acts upon matter. Landscapes, images and materials thus appear as living structures in which processes of sedimentation, wear and continuous transformation are inscribed.
Text by Pavel Vernaza
Opening date: March 16, 2026
Closing date: To be announced
