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ExcisionA project for Art Positions, Art Basel l Miami Beach l 2012By 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-independenceandrepublicanisminColombia(1824–1930)
* Thispublicationwasconceivedasparalleldocumentationofthepieceexhibitedatthefair.