Fragmentario
Fragmentario is a space for research and play that seeks to explore and share ideas of time and culture with the intention to understand how collective consciousness is formed and how to expand it.
It comprises different forms of expression, from clothing, performance, installation, as well as workshops and participatory art. It uses different by-product materials like avocado seeds, deadstock silk, water, algae and many more.
Fragmentario was born in 2016 in a space between Brooklyn and the Internet. It was created by María Elena Pombo.
María Elena Pombo
María Elena Pombo was born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1988 and in 2011 left for New York City, where she has lived ever since. She has a background in fashion design and industrial engineering and has studied and worked in the USA, Venezuela and France. These multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary experiences inform her view of the world and her work.
Fragmentario & María Elena
Exhibited across Europe, Japan and the USA at venues such as Yamamoto-Seika, A/D/O and La Guarimba Film Festival. Upcoming exhibition: London Design Biennale at Somerset House (Venezuelan Pavillion).
Worked as faculty at Parsons School of Design and as lecturer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden and other cultural spaces across Europe, Japan and the USA.
Thinking a lot about: avocados, avocado seeds, water, silk, petroleum, migrations, geopolitics, the past, the future, why people want head-shots.
Contact
email: info@fragmentario.co
instagram: @fragmentario_
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Belonging to a high-context culture makes explicitness uncomfortable. Below an effort to conform to the low-context culture of the English language, the Internet and the 21th century:
#MaterialResearch
#Experimentation
#StoryTelling
#Play
#Community
#Physicality
#Repetition
#Intersectionality
#LatinAmerica (not the same as #Latinx)
#GlobalSouth
#Geopolitics
#ImplicitCommunication
#TrojanHorses
