The Vanishing Sculpture is an edible installation by No.29, conceived by artist Lang Lang.
Taking form as eight hand-shaped rice paper sculptures and eight ephemeral desserts, the work was created in dialogue with participating French artists and inspired by the exhibition’s themes of space, memory, and transience.

This project reimagines the way we gather and remember — not through lasting objects, but through fleeting forms that dissolve on the tongue. Each piece held a bespoke dessert, crafted from natural ingredients and shaped by time, light, and touch. No.29’s contribution served as a sensorial anchor to the exhibition — a poetic gesture balancing materiality and absence, intimacy and ritual.

Born from a quiet longing, The Vanishing Sculpture invites us to reflect on memory through ephemerality. At its heart are eight edible rice paper sculptures — light, delicate, and intricately crafted to cradle desserts inspired by the works of participating French artists.

“For this series, I chose rice paper — a material rooted in my childhood, carrying memories as fragile yet resilient as itself. Each piece grows organically, shaped gently by time, touch, and light — never the same, each with its own quiet rhythm. These sculptures embody transformation — soft and grounded, reflecting how things fade, return, and evolve.”
— Lang Lang, founder of No.29

Each sculpture serves as both vessel and veil for a hidden edible artwork. These pieces draw from the quiet rhythms of nature — the soft erosion of butter under warmth, the bloom and wilt of garden textures, the way light lands on a surface and slowly departs. Made from seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, each is a fleeting offering, meant to be held, tasted, and then gone — leaving behind only sensation and memory.

This is a study in tenderness — a meditation on the poetics of disappearance and the possibility of nourishment as art.

The exhibition was presented by Villa Albertine with support from Mobilier National, Institut français, and Oui Design!, among others. Curated by Aurore Vullierme.