Ged Merino collects things, discarded intentionally or incidentally, and his history includes a cycle of migration and settlement, a movement of physical things. Through textile, the artist archives sentimentality, its communal and collective experience. Ged’s work is an attempt to make sense of a looming historical incongruence between what is lived, what remains and what must be remembered.
The Filipino culture has been shaped by hundreds of years of colonization, navigating in globalization, and persisting revolt to self-determination. It is often asked how do Filipinos define their identity because of our history.