Steph Huang received her MA from the Royal College of Art in 2021 and now lives and works in London.
Steph Huang’s playful installations are assembled from elements of everyday life. Rooted in observations of the subtleties of societal relations, Huang’s installations introduce a new, often ironic order. As an observer of daily life and conventions, Huang draws from ordinary scenarios and makes use of mundane items to tell new stories about social reality as seen through her eyes.
Collecting seemingly irrelevant materials and reapplying fragments of old objects, Huang forges them into forms with a minimalistic elegance. The solid color of the Plywood creates a visual and tactile contrast to the fragility of the hand-blown glass, a bronze-cast strawberry hangs from the glass tube, the seemingly secure supporting structure harbors a sense of danger through the precarious sense that it might fall and break. Balance is an important structural element in Huang’s work, the different textures of the component parts are often interconnected to signify the forced and collateral collaborations and contradictions in contemporary labor relationships.