Steph Huang, a Taiwanese artist based in London, explores the poetic and emotional dimensions of everyday life in her practice. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, she assembles mass-produced and organic materials, creating layered narratives that reflect on consumerism, memory and human relationships. Huang transforms these mundane remnants into tactile encounters that critique and question the disposability and efficiency of modern consumer culture.
‘Luncheon’ (2024) and ‘Holiday Treats’ (2025) are two of several sculptural works that comprised ‘Lili Deli,’ a fictional store installation exhibited at the Taipei Fine Art Museum in 2025. Built on pressed wastepaper cubes, the installation replaced conventional materials with fragile, organic and impermanent ones — rust-prone steel, bronze fish bones, oxidizing shellfish, fading thermal paper and recycled packaging. ‘Luncheon’ features a precariously balanced composition of mild steel, emulsion, wood, glass, tin and bronze, evoking the fleeting nature of consumption and the fragility of memory. ‘Holiday Treats’ extends this meditation by pairing playful, sweets themed forms with similarly fragile materials, highlighting how moments of pleasure are entwined with cycles of waste and impermanence.