PERROTIN TOKYO

9/26 11:00 - 20:00
9/27 11:00 - 20:00
9/28 Closed

Piramide Bldg. 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

03-6721-0687

https://www.perrotin.com

Perrotin Tokyo is pleased to announce solo exhibitions by Nikki Maloof and Steph Huang, opening on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. The exhibitions will be on view from Wednesday, September 10 through Saturday, October 25, 2025. These will be the first solo exhibitions in Japan for both artists.

Based in Massachusetts, USA, Nikki Maloof depicts the world hidden within the mind. Imagined interiors and animals become proxies for the human experience. Her subjects convey existential loneliness, but that loneliness is buoyed by humor, capricious paint handling, and the use of a saturated palette. A squiggle depicting ground meat, a cat’s meow being mistaken for a howl, or a comically disillusioned fish being filleted before our eyes, all draw the
viewer’s attention to the melancholic and at times brutal tone of the imagery. At the same time, the paint handling and colors attempt to undermine the dark nature of these images all together. This self-defeating melodrama points to an ambivalent view of existence, a need to laugh and cry even at once.

“When an Encounter Takes Place” is a solo exhibition of sculptures and installations by the London-based Taiwanese artist Steph Huang, marking her debut with the gallery. Known for being a poet of materiality, Huang’s playful sculptures and idiosyncratic assemblages created with found objects and malleable materials draw on universally shared human experiences in society. Having grown up in Taiwan and lived in London for more than a decade now, the artist is undoubtedly aware of the mechanism of globalization and its aftermath, yet her artistic practice is not representational of its symptoms, but offers ways of perceiving and experiencing the world that drifts away, or even liberating from the mainstream.