Leyla Cárdenas: Excavating Memory in the Ruins of Bogotá Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1975, Leyla Cárdenas’s artistic journey is inextricably linked to her homeland – a city layered with history, conflict, and profound beauty. From an early age, she exhibited a fascination with deconstruction and reinvention, qualities that would profoundly shape her approach to art. This inherent curiosity, coupled with a rebellious spirit against conventional norms, led her initially to pursue visual arts at the National University of Colombia before ultimately earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from t…