Jessica Azizeh (b. 1999, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian designer, artist and researcher working at the intersection of material culture, heritage and indigenous knowledge. She holds a B.des in Industrial Design from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Ramat Gan and is currently pursuing her MFA in CRAFT! ceramics and glass at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Her practice explores how a heritage, fragmented and disrupted by dispossession, destruction and erasure, can be retrieved and reimagined through contemporary craft practices. She begins with listening: to cultural materials, to land, and to the relationships between people and their objects. This nuanced approach yields works that are neither acts of preservation nor reinvention, but rather are continued expressions of the collective cultural identity. Currently working with clay as a primary medium, her practice demonstrates how heritage can be both held and transformed, activated, made present, and accessible through objects that materialize collective cultural memory.
