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.