Jean-Baptiste Lenglet

Jean-Baptiste Lenglet (b. 1984, Nîmes) is a French artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans video, performance, installation, and ceramics. Trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and holding a practice-based PhD, he explores the porous boundaries between fiction and reality through immersive, multilayered environments. Drawing from cinema, architecture, and virtual technologies, Lenglet creates narrative spaces that invite sensory disorientation and perceptual shifts. His recent integration of ceramics extends these inquiries into the realm of physical matter, using clay as a medium through which digital logic takes form.
Since 2020, he has been collaborating with artist and architect Jessica Boubetra on a series of ceramic works where algorithmic design meets sculptural experimentation. Together, they explore how digital processes – duplication, distortion, reprinting – can be embedded in matter through high-temperature ceramic techniques.
At the heart of Lenglet's practice lies a philosophical investigation into the instability of representation and the malleability of perception. His works function as liminal zones, thresholds where the virtual and the physical, the imagined and the experienced, merge and collapse into one another. In this context, ceramics become more than sculptural objects: they are vessels of memory and simulation, shaped by code, gesture, and time.
By bridging technological abstraction and manual craft, Lenglet challenges the hierarchy between the real and the virtual, proposing instead a continuum where both coexist as equally constructed, equally fluid dimensions of experience.