Shirley Tse – 'Negotiated Differences' vase

Hong Kong-born, Los Angeles-based artist Shirley Tse works across multiple media to deconstruct synthetic objects that inherently carry paradoxical meanings within them and construct models in which these differences might come together. In collaboration with Tse, the M+ Shop has developed a series of products in response to her solo exhibition Shirley Tse: Stakes and Holders* and to evoke her sculptural ideas. Working with multiple Hong Kong craftsmen, these respective 'stakeholders' in the collection’s development highlight and underpin the exhibition’s title.

• Inspired by Shirley Tse’s practice and installation Negotiated Differences
• Collaboration with Hong Kong-based Coutou Woodworking Studio
• Made of offcut wood, each vase has its own unique texture, shape and colour that evoke Tse’s idea of ‘negotiating differences’
• Glass vial inserted into inter-changeable, stacking wooden blocks

Materials: Wood, glass
Dimensions: Glass vial: 3 cm in diameter; vase: 15 cm tall after stacking up
Origin: Designed and made in Hong Kong 

*Co-presented by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
  Hotel Partner: Hotel ICON