Jessy Slim

Instagram: _slimfactory

Website: https://slim-studio.com/

Bio: Slim earned her Master of Architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2021, following a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. In 2022, Slim participated in the Detroit Month of Design, contributing to the LATITUDE Architecture Alumni exhibition, which highlighted the work of Cranbrook alumni and students from the Architecture department. Slim lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Statement: Jessy Slim (Oakland, CA) creates work that explores the space in between—a conceptual place that deconstructs, reframes, and re-examines our surroundings, the systems in place, and their broader implications. Her research-driven practice is guided by intuition and memory, and spans architecture, installation, sculpture, and photography. Through these media, Slim critiques power and authority, acting as an iconoclast and developing ways to question and understand the inherent nature of the world around us. Informed by her own experiences of displacement, Slim’s work embraces her personal history through the lens of a Lebanese immigrant. She frequently incorporates chickpeas—an ingredient emblematic of Levantine cuisine and Lebanese identity—to express the fragmentation of cultural and political identities in both physical and cognitive spaces. The temporality of her sculptures remains in flux, indefinite and evolving. By centering chickpeas as a commodified, ethnically appropriated, borrowed, and forgotten material, Slim seeks to preserve their cultural value and amplify their significance.