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Lili Deli
2025/03/29 - 2025/06/22

"Lili Deli" is about to open its door at the art museum. This unique "store" is built upon a foundation of pressed waste paper cubes and intentionally avoids familiar additives and chemical seasonings. It replaces cheap melamine, plastic tableware and durable stainless steel with unstable mild-steel tables that are prone to rust, bronze fish bones, air-dry broad bean pods and shellfish that are oxidising, unframed photographs, fragile glass, recycled cans, thermal paper with fading text, and packaging materials that are difficult to preserve. The artist chooses to use non-traditional, organic materials, carefully assembling the remnants of consumer behaviour into various sculptural installations. These works reflect the modern era's pursuit of low cost, efficiency, convenience, and practicality while moving forward with the flow of collective unconsciousness.

Within the exhibition, there will also be a "Tower of Freebies Project", inviting visitors to bring an unwanted promotional item from home to create a collaborative tower on-site. This initiative aims to build a stage for the revival of surplus items produced as a result of consumption stimulation.

Artist
Steph Huang

Steph Huang’s multidisciplinary practice investigates mass production and commerce, the transcultural and historical dimensions of the food industry, and the implications of such markets on modern lifestyles and natural environment. Huang transforms everyday spaces and objects, resulting in minimalist sculptures and poetically charged installations of quiet resonance. 

She received her MA in Sculpture from Royal College of Art in 2021, recent solo exhibitions include Art Now: See, See, Sea, Tate Britain, London, 2024; Property for Sale, Hong Foundation, Taipei, 2024; There Is Nothing Old Under The Sun, Standpoint, London, 2024; The Water that Bears the Boat, E-WERK Freiburg, Germany, 2024; I Will See You When the Week Ends, Public Gallery, London, 2023; A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way, Goldsmiths CCA, London, 2022; Everything and Nothing, mother’s tankstation, London, 2022. Selected group show include Public Gallery, 2025; gdm, Hong Kong, 2023; Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2022; New Contemporaries Bloomberg, London, 2022; Belmacz, London, 2021; South London Gallery, London, 2021. In 2023, Huang was awarded the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award and was a recipient of The Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. In 2022, Huang was awarded the Grand Prize at the Taipei Art Awards.

Photographed by Sophie Stafford at The Fryer's Delight, London