a detail is not a fragment presents three 16mm experimental short films—Trenzando futuro (Braiding Future); Pelogramas (Hairgrams); and Sín título, autorretrato (Untitled, self-portrait)—as both 16mm projection loops and contact printed photographs. 

Paola Fernanda’s films use intimate, personal and collective experiences to reflect on identity, cultural displacement, family and the body as a site of memory.

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About: According to the artist, the construction of her images come fully from process. “My hair … is a timeline that I have kept since I left Colombia,” she says. “Although hair is not a living object, it grows similarly to plants and carries infinite memories that can serve to attribute life to it. Hair has a place in memorial, ritual, and magic, and it has an ambiguous relationship to the rest of the human body. Pelogramas was made without a camera and as a result, the record is a continuum without the intervals between frames.”

Paola’s images invite viewers to observe the materialization of her connections and to contemplate, without obstacles, that the work does not project an anchor to a single way of looking or a prescription to one possible translation of her notions of mobility, women’s roles and standings, or the perceptions of the individual within an “alien” community.

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a detail is not a fragment was organized by Paola Fernanda and Leandro Villaro
Printing and 16mm projections: Pedro Wainer and Paola Fernanda. Production: Vishnu Gangaram

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New York, NY – Penumbra Foundation 2025