A way of working

Siwoo Jeong is a Korean artist based in Lyon, currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

His practice developed through a sustained engagement with material, gesture, and process, shaped by both academic training and hands-on experience in the studio. Ceramics became a central medium over time — not as a predefined choice, but as a material that allowed a direct and continuous dialogue between hand and form.

Working primarily with stoneware, he explores how repetition, pressure, and heat can transform matter. Each piece emerges through a process where control is never fully fixed, allowing slight shifts, irregularities, and moments of instability to appear.

Alongside his studies, his work has extended beyond the studio through collaborations, exhibitions, and direct exchanges with different contexts, including tableware and spatial installations. This movement between artistic research and everyday use has led him to develop pieces that are not only to be observed, but to be lived with.

Today, his practice moves between functional objects, interior pieces, and exhibition works — maintaining a consistent approach where making is understood as a process of correspondence with materials rather than the imposition of form.

His work is now available through a selection of pieces, as well as through specific commissions.

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