Jessica Boubetra and Jean-Baptiste Lenglet are partners in art and life whose collaborative practice lies at the intersection of the natural world, architectural form, and digital innovation. Together, they push the boundaries of ceramic art through a deeply process-driven approach that merges ancient craftsmanship with contemporary technologies such as 3D ceramic printing, parametric design, and virtual reality. Their work reimagines ceramics as a terrain where materiality, narrative, and technology are continuously reconfigured.
Trained as both an artist and architect, Boubetra brings a distinct sensitivity to sculptural form, blending high-temperature ceramic glazes, algorithmic design, and organic inspiration drawn from marine organisms, plant structures, and microscopic life. Her individual practice reflects a mastery of both traditional ceramic techniques and cutting-edge digital fabrication. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Paris Malaquais school of architecture, she refined her practice through a residency at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where she explored Japan’s ceramic traditions. In 2020, she co-founded Lumierrante with Lenglet, a pioneering Paris-based workshop specializing in 3D-printed ceramics.
Lenglet is an interdisciplinary artist whose background spans video, installation, painting, and ceramics. He holds a master’s degree in film studies from Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and graduated with honors from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. His doctoral research explores how moving image, sound, and spatial form intersect in immersive environments. His installations blend cultural references—from Hopi mythology to electronic music history—and are conceived as layered, atmospheric experiences that dissolve the line between fiction and reality. In recent years, he has integrated ceramics into his broader practice, treating clay as both a tactile and conceptual counterpart to digital media.
In collaboration, Boubetra and Lenglet create sculptural works that emerge from a back-and-forth process between virtual environments and physical materials. Sculptural forms are digitally modeled, distorted through coding and algorithmic processes, and then realized in clay through 3D printing, casting, and hand-finishing. This hybrid method reflects their shared interest in how nature and technology are not opposing forces, but intertwined realities in constant transformation.
Their joint works range from abstract ceramic totems to functional design objects, such as side tables and lighting, that blur distinctions between sculpture, utility, and narrative. At the heart of their practice is a sustained inquiry into perception, transformation, and the future of craft in a digitally mediated world.
Their works have been exhibited in institutions including the Musée du Louvre, Palais de Tokyo, Villa Noailles, Mo.Co Panacée, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation, and continue to expand the dialogue between contemporary design and fine art through a uniquely collaborative lens.
