Fragmentario
Fragmentario is a project to research and share ideas of time and culture. It seeks 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
María Elena Pombo works under the moniker Fragmentario researching and experimenting with materials as a way to explore and share ideas about time, culture and collective consciousness.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Architectural Digest, Time Out, as well as in the 2019 book True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments.
Pombo has exhibited her work at the London Design Biennale at Somerset House (London, UK), A/D/O (Brooklyn, New York); SXSW (Austin, Texas); Yamamoto Seika (Osaka, Japan); La Guarimba Film Festival (Amantea, Italy); among others. Her exhibition La Rentrada won the award for the most inspiring interpretation of the theme at the 2021 London Design Biennale edition.
Pombo is part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She has been guest lecturer and critic at Yale University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, International Fashion Academy of Paris, New York Botanical Garden, as well as non-traditional spaces in the USA, Europe and Japan.
Contact
email: info@fragmentario.co
instagram: @fragmentario_
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