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Steph Huang


Lili Deli, 2025

Limited edition print run of 500, 165pp,
1.5 x 23.5 x 18 cm

£18.00

"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.







A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way, 2022

Limited edition print run of 350, 136pp,
1.35 x 20 x 7 cm

£10.00

This publication comprises over a hundred 35mm photographs taken in various local markets worldwide. These are the trigger points for a series of new works showing in Goldsmiths CCA and an attempt to examine something of the lives of modern human beings.

The book also includes insights of Fuchsia Dunlop, Yvonne Maxwell, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Alex Rhys Taylor, Junya Yamasaki, tracing globalisation and its trade routes, traversing Sichuan peppers to Californian seafood and encompassing tales of survival, resistance and growth.










 



 





Escape from Where We Are, 2021






Prawns & Pigs, 2019



The Ashtray Show West, 2019 

A black and white poster with a cinermatic image of cigarette burn holes on an old armchair is printed over with The Ashtray Show West in mottled white text. Ninety-two ashtrays are lined up on shelves spreading into the floor. Some are from personal collections or bespoke pieces, sentimental, symbolic, rude or idiosyncratic, displayed opposite a collection of delicate jewelry. Both ashtrays and jewelry are universally recognisable forms of adornment that connect to notions of monopoly, materiality and trade.

Ashtray have served as a local point for watching smoking plumes diffuse, looking into the distance, giancing at co-smokers and thinking little.  

“We can move our hand across the table and we can move the ashtray. But we cannot move our hand through the tabletop, or across the spot on which the ashtray stands, without moving the ashtray. To putit differently, our possibilities of action are limited.”

From Material Objects by W.D. Joske







Artist Edition of 100 Artist Edition of 100 GBP 15