Making it Matters
Making it Matters
2 Nov 2024
Making it Matters is an exhibition exploring different approaches to the topic of making as a process of creative expression and the long-lasting impact this process has on our individual lives, global communities, and ecosystem. The experimental display will feature ideas that innovative makers have adopted to incorporate responsible design, material innovation, and creative reuse strategies into alternative modes of thinking and how these ideas are situated within wider historical, pragmatic, or sociopolitical contexts. The exhibition draws upon the diverse work of artists, designers, and architects currently in the M+ Collections—including John Cage, Raffaella della Olga, Anna Ridler, Julie & Jesse, Fujimori Terunobu, Vo Trong Nghia Architects, and Rural Urban Framework—to highlight the diverse stories that show us why the act of making continues to matter in society, now more than ever.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Presentation model, Wind and Water (wNw) Bar (2006–2008), Thu Dau Mot Town, Vietnam, 2008. Bamboo. M+, Hong Kong. © Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Julie & Jesse. Fragment(s) prototype, 2012. Ceramic glaze and biscuit porcelain. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Julie Progin and Jesse McLin, 2015. © 2012, Julie Progin & Jesse McLin
Neco Neon Co. Ltd. Neon sign for ‘Luen Sang Wine Company/The Two Immortals–Tortoise and Deer Spirit wine’, ca.1963–1968. Paint and ink on paper. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Nam Wah Neonlight & Electrical Mfy, Ltd., 2015. © All rights reserved
Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Presentation model, Wind and Water (wNw) Bar (2006–2008), Thu Dau Mot Town, Vietnam, 2008. Bamboo. M+, Hong Kong. © Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Julie & Jesse. Fragment(s) prototype, 2012. Ceramic glaze and biscuit porcelain. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Julie Progin and Jesse McLin, 2015. © 2012, Julie Progin & Jesse McLin
Neco Neon Co. Ltd. Neon sign for ‘Luen Sang Wine Company/The Two Immortals–Tortoise and Deer Spirit wine’, ca.1963–1968. Paint and ink on paper. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Nam Wah Neonlight & Electrical Mfy, Ltd., 2015. © All rights reserved
Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Presentation model, Wind and Water (wNw) Bar (2006–2008), Thu Dau Mot Town, Vietnam, 2008. Bamboo. M+, Hong Kong. © Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Julie & Jesse. Fragment(s) prototype, 2012. Ceramic glaze and biscuit porcelain. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Julie Progin and Jesse McLin, 2015. © 2012, Julie Progin & Jesse McLin
Neco Neon Co. Ltd. Neon sign for ‘Luen Sang Wine Company/The Two Immortals–Tortoise and Deer Spirit wine’, ca.1963–1968. Paint and ink on paper. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Nam Wah Neonlight & Electrical Mfy, Ltd., 2015. © All rights reserved
Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Presentation model, Wind and Water (wNw) Bar (2006–2008), Thu Dau Mot Town, Vietnam, 2008. Bamboo. M+, Hong Kong. © Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Julie & Jesse. Fragment(s) prototype, 2012. Ceramic glaze and biscuit porcelain. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Julie Progin and Jesse McLin, 2015. © 2012, Julie Progin & Jesse McLin
Neco Neon Co. Ltd. Neon sign for ‘Luen Sang Wine Company/The Two Immortals–Tortoise and Deer Spirit wine’, ca.1963–1968. Paint and ink on paper. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Nam Wah Neonlight & Electrical Mfy, Ltd., 2015. © All rights reserved
Image at top: Sou Fujimoto Architects, Sou Fujimoto. Model No. 329, Home-for-All (2011-2012), Rikuzentakata, Japan, 2011. Wood, styrene board, dried flower, foamed styrol, and paper. 19.5 × 32 × 27 cm. M+, Hong Kong. © Sou Fujimoto Architects