solo show, Unraveling, Transference, opened on September 6, 2023 at Vent Gallery, RIdgewood, Ny.

Carrying, Holding, Releasing, 2023 —Single channel video projection, 00:22:17

Unraveling, Transference explores the intimacies of weight and grief through materials Ong has carried with her from studio to studio and apartment to apartment over the past ten years. The works in this show can be considered as post-performance ritual objects, artifacts to the processes. The physical labor of Ong’s work — carrying, holding, tearing, twisting, dyeing, winding, wrapping, tying, bundling, wrestling, listening, surrendering — is an unraveling of grief. It’s a transference of weight. The exhibit is further contextualized and placed in time by a soundscape composed in collaboration with Jeff Ong.

Gallery view on left, detail shot of Grief Stones (window installation) on right.

Ropes Coming through Wall Vent, 2023 — Cotton muslin, clay slip, air-dry clay, ink, sheets, and organic cotton duvet cover

In previous life: The walls to V’asu li Mikdash and Vibration Portal

Studio Notes, 2021-22 — Ink and index cards, 3 x 5 inches, each

Unraveling Basket (a failed attempt to make a container to carry my grief), 2023 — Natural and synthetic bed sheets, mattress topper, bed-bug mattress case, more sheets, the last of a fabric roll donated from a previous installation, copper and aluminum wire, Rit fabric dye, many hours of twisting, many cuts from wires.

Ropes Held Taut by Tension, 2023 — Cotton muslin, canvas curtain, ink, paint, air-dry clay and tension, In previous life: The walls to V’asu li Mikdash, 2018, Vibration Portal, 2022 and artist’s studio drop cloth, Dimensions Variable.

Studio Inventory (Grief is Not Granular), 2023 — 1 channel sound composition, processed voice memo, parabolic speaker, electronics, reclaimed textiles, 00: 24:11. Sound composition by Jeff Ong.