Steph Huang

In 'Lili Deli', Steph Huang's exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan-born, London-based artist sticks a candle in the wine bottle, so to speak, clinging to the remnants of delightful indulgence.

- Christopher Whitfield

Staging the gallery space as a makeshift 'deli', Huang offers the frail objects of our consumption extensions to their limited lifespans, making a quiet spectacle of commodities and waste.

Huang finds a productive tension between preservation and disposal. Located at the gallery's entrance, Weeknight (2024) comprises a bubble of blown glass pinched between two tins emptied of their perishables (feta cheese and eggplant caponata); materials for many of the show's standout sculptures come from Huang's rummaging through the recycling, elevating traces of a good meal into objects of reverence. Pickle Tin Alien (2025) started life as a drum of gherkins; the artist affixed three legs to it and draped it in silk, giving it the appearance of a coffee table.

Huang's efforts at artful conservation don't end with the found object. Sculptures are adorned with blown-glass gherkins and asparagus, or else with bronze-cast delicacies; in