ArtSpeak: Artists' Talk with Ged Merino and Aze Ong of "Portals"

We would like to thank everyone who joined us for ArtSpeak: Artists’ Talk with Ged Merino and Aze Ong held last July 11 here at the Ateneo Art Gallery! Watch the full program above.
Ged Merino and Aze Ong of the GedAze Project touched on how their personal experiences influence their art practice, leading it to be a source and avenue for collaboration, restoration, and spiritual and social growth.
In Merino’s practice, art serves as an avenue for discourse and collaboration, finding and reiterating meaning through found objects, textiles, and how these translate and/or find new meaning through the collaborative process or in the space of community.
Aze Ong grew up with a family well-versed in textiles and fibers. The repetitive action when working with these materials forms a meditative space of reflection, unity, and experimentation. This allows Ong to explore and merge various techniques, offering diverse shapes, sizes, and colors in the final composition which ultimately reflect and commentate on ideas on community, identity, and gender.
“Portals,” an interactive, ephemeral, and experimental outdoor installation featuring a fabric canopy composed of varied fiber and fabric textures, with several holes and openings incorporated in its design. As part of the collaboration the GedAze Project, each part of “Portals” holds meaning as it is bound together. Various techniques of crochet, sewing, embroidery, knitting, and knotting were used by the artists to draw viewers in to stand below the installation and observe the interconnected threads and bonds, as humans are to one another.
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