STEPH HUANG

Steph Huang has long explored the production, circulation, and consumption of food within the global economy. Her practice has moved from markets and trade routes to the British fishing industry and systems of labour, and from there to the structures of consumption, packaging, and the reconfiguration of what is left behind. The Glittering Grove marks Steph Huang’s first solo exhibition at TKG+, as she turns her attention further upstream, returning to the origins of food production. From olive groves to industrial production lines, she considers how a bottle of olive oil comes into being through the intertwined forces of nature, labour, and capital. What Huang assembles in the exhibition is not simply a collection of objects, but a set of realities operating at different scales within the production process: land and factory, plant and machine, labour and consumption. By bringing together elements that are ordinarily dispersed across different stages of the supply chain, the exhibition invites viewers to follow the olive from the land to the marketplace, using olive oil as a point of departure for tracing the systems that shape its production and value.