leyla
cárdenas
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 …
A portrait built from leyla cárdenas's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
