Under the moniker Fragmentario, María Elena Pombo researches and experiments with materials as a way to explore and share ideas about time, culture and collective consciousness.

Since 2017 a protagonist of her research has been the avocado, which she uses as a memento of the avocado tree in her former family house in Venezuela and to imagine possible futures.

Since 2018, Pombo has worked with a technique that she has defined as "entrelazado", the Spanish word for both textile interweaving and interleaving, a technique in computing used to make data storage more efficient by arranging it in a noncontiguous manner. The duality of the technique's name is a nod at the idea of arranging her textiles as a metaphor to the arrangement of her memories as a part of the Venezuelan diaspora. The technique flirts but never commits to the idea of weaving and uses deadstock silk fibers dyed with plants.

Entrelazados 3D et al. presents a series of tridimensional avocado-seed ‘entrelazados’ and other surprise sculptures that invite participants to explore and reframe our relationships with time and space.

Inauguration:
25 September 2021, 1pm - 4pm

In Person Exhibition:
25 September 2021 - 10 October 2021

Supported by:
NYC Artist Corps, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Queens Theatre, Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Details:
Varied dimensions. Deadstock silk organza dyed with avocado seeds and baking soda, lime juice, vinegar and iron pills. Found wooden pieces, bathtub and sinks. Avocado seed teas.

Further Thanks:
Layne Blake, Lisa Deurer, Griffin Moore, Rosa, Tony W.

Brooklyn, New York

September 2021 - October 2021