Raya Kassisieh

Born 1991 in Amman, Jordan, lives and works between Amman and London.

Drawing from her heritage and background in textiles and pattern making, Raya Kassisieh’s multidisciplinary practice explores the politics of the body, its ties to land and ecology, and the quiet architectures of grief that move through both. Her sculptural recreations of natural forms and archival objects emerge from the terrains she inhabits, in this presentation it including the rural landscape of Mahis, where close attention to soil, plant and slow decay shaped her understanding of how loss settles into material life.

Working with fibers and metals, she treats the body as a pliable site for re imagination, a vessel shaped by memory and environment. Through steel, copper, silks, wool and cotton, she investigates thresholds between the human and more than human world while considering how grief behaves as a form of ecology in itself, a process of erosion, absorption and eventual renewal. In her practice, natural and fabricated forms hold autonomy through states that blur fixity and change, much like grief itself which shifts, reforms and leaves traces across time.

Raya’s multi material practice registers the dynamism and dissonance of contemporary life while inviting a deeper awareness of the emotional and ecological systems that shape our ways of being.

Kassisieh studied at Pratt Institute, New York, and completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. Recent exhibitions include, Islamic Art Biennale, Jeddah (2025); Hunna Art, Kuwait (2024); Bermondsey Project Space, London (2024); Bayt al Mamzar, Dubai (2022); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2022); and Hangar Space, Amman (2022).

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RAYA KASSISIEHBooth D04

ABU DHABI ART 2025

RAYA KASSISIEH
Booth D04