Jalila Essaïdi is Student at Alliantie Kunsten Fontys Zuyd, Netherlands.

Jalila was previously Art Teacher at Fontys Art Academy, Tilburg; Event Manager at Fontys Art Academy, Tilburg; Art Education Intern at Pleincollege Sint Joris, Eindhoven; Artist Intern at Artist workplace Beeldenstorm, Eindhoven; Art Education Intern at ROC Eindhoven; Adult Education Intern at ROC Eindhoven; and Owner at Essdïdi Cosmedix. Her artwork is about the recognition of the transience of matter and a human desire to keep and hold. In her work, she embeds this desperate race against time by using living or organic matter, capable of decay or the product of decay. While Jalila uses a variety of materials and processes in each project, their roots are consistent. They are linked by nature's genius, the fruits from three billion years of trial and error resulting in various ways of fighting transience, preserving information, recreating. By embracing new materials and/or knowledge resulting from biotechnology, she offers a view on the social, political, ethical, and cultural issues resulting from this relatively new ability of humans to understand and manipulate the mechanism behind nature's genius. Jalila earned her Bachelor's in Art at Fontys Hogescholen in 2009, studied Bioart (Honors) at Universiteit Leiden from 2008 to 2010, and is currently completing her Master's in Art at Alliantie Kunsten Fontys Zuyd.