About

Fragmentario was started by María Elena Pombo in 2016 as a space to explore and research ideas of time, space and culture with the goal of understanding how collective consciousness is formed and how to expand it.

María Elena Pombo was born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1988 and has lived in Brooklyn since 2011.

She has exhibited her work and lectured across Europe, Japan and the USA at venues such as Yamamoto-Seika, A/D/O and La Guarimba Film Festival. She has also worked as faculty at Parsons School of Design and as lecturer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden. For more information on her teaching experience, you can click here. She has also worked as a consultant with different brands applying her research. You can see this work here.

She is currently working on a project called La Rentrada, which will be exhibited at the London Design Biennale in June 2021 in Somerset House. The project explores avocado seeds as a material to replace Venezuela’s dependency on oil and with this to allow the return of the Venezuelan diaspora into its country.

Before starting/becoming Fragmentario, María Elena worked as a fashion designer in the USA and as an engineer in Venezuela and in France. She graduated from Universidad Simón Bolívar with an Engineering Degree in Production Engineering and from Parsons School of Design with an Associate of Applied Sciences Degree in Fashion Design. She was also an Industrial Engineering student at the Institute National des Sciences Appliquées.

You can contact María Elena at info@fragmentario.co

You can see updated work at instagram.com/fragmentario_

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