Jessica El Mal is a British-Moroccan artist and curator with a particular interest in ecology, globalization and migration. Her work addresses global structures of power through critical research, multidisciplinary projects, and speculative future imaginaries. Recently her work has been concerned with water as a political and spiritual entity, employing cyanotype, textiles and sound in her installations. She has had exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, MAMA Rotterdam, and JAAL Riad, Marrakech. She runs community arts programs in nature for people with experience of migration for which partnerships have included Journey’s Festival International, the Forestry Commission and more. She is the co-director of A.MAL Projects, an art and research initiative between North Africa and Europe, curator at The Arab British Centre and a PhD candidate at University of Leeds.
Jessica’s Projects:
The Digital Forest
The Poetics of Water