The Apple Paradox: Desire and Decay is a group exhibition featuring nine emerging artists:
Chengyu Yao, Ke Jade Fan, Ling Qiao, Zhanjiang Liu, Pingfan Que, Yunlin Jiang, Yijing Miao, Yitong Ye and Zixiang Zhang. Through the use of various mediums (video, painting, installation, textiles and performance) the exhibition examines the complex dynamics of social marginalisation, consumerism and production in contemporary society.

The apple – an enduring symbol in both Eastern and Western traditions – is used as a recurring motif. A seemingly ordinary fruit, but its core carries deeper symbolism across different cultures.

From the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, to the Golden apple of discord in Greek mythology, and all the way to a globalised icon of consumer culture, what makes an apple paradoxical? It is enticing yet fragile, full of knowledge and yet concealing decay. Is it better to have all the knowledge in the world at your fingertips or to stay within the bliss of ignorance?

The Apple Paradox: Desire and Decay explores issues of overproduction, ecological renewal and the nuances between marginalisation and consumption. Making use of multidisciplinary works –Urban Orphans reflect on the scars of memory, Symbiotic experiments between industrial waste and nature, The Flow explores tactile engagement with digital consumption – the exhibition invites audiences into a space where memory, materiality, and metaphor converge.

Huang Contemporary Gallery presented