Leki Kyun/ Everyday Objects

Leki is a London-based South Korean artist studying for a BA in Ceramics Design at Central Saint Martins. He works across clay, painting, and metal, making provocative images that create open dialogue. Moving between cultures as a child left him with a real openness to difference, but also a weariness toward collective memories and histories.

This experience shapes and pushes him to question populism. He doesn't see the world solely through power dynamics; instead, he believes every exchange carries real human intimacy. His emotionally driven work dismantles hierarchies of class and gender, turning attention purely on the individual.

My ceramic works emerge from a fairy tale I created, Coral Princess, the story of a once-vibrant sovereign whose body slowly collapsed due to human consumption. As she fades, she leaves fragments of herself scattered across the ocean floor. These remnants become the underwater forms I shape: coral and underwater moss-themed ceramic cups, as well as a ring stand.

Drawing on the realities of coral bleaching and the continuous destruction of marine life, the work becomes an environmental lament. It reflects the irreversible human imprint on nature.

By bringing fragments of coral reefs into the hand and onto the table, the work restores a lost intimacy and reminds us of our everyday encounter with a disappearing underwater kingdom.