Yeddin is the work of Yasmine Lahjij. Based in Milan and Tangier, the artist explores local cultures, technological frameworks, and material realities. Through ceramics, embroidery, culinary arts, and sound, her work embraces pluralism, multispecies coexistence, and the weaving of personal and collective narratives.

Yeddin cultivates collaborations across diverse communities and social realities - children, young adults, women, and networks of artists, architects, artisans, chefs, farmers, winemakers, and musicians. These encounters bring together distinct worldviews to nurture and safeguard the essential principles of life. Constantly questioning the tools that shape notions of terroir, memory, transmission, and social bonds, Yeddin explores how these forces evolve within regional contexts.

Works and projects

m3aalq

30 handcrafted and woodfired objects, various dimensions, 2025.
(wild foraged soils by Nina Salsotto - Unurgent Argilla)
m3aalq © 2025 by Yasmina Lahjij - Yeddin Studio CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

m3aalq

The ambiguous series, conceived in preparation for a communal banquet performance, features hand-crafted, textured objects shaped as spoons. Designed not merely for serving, they aim to heighten and question the sensory pleasure of eating. Each piece acts as an extension of the body, offering both tactile comfort and unease, and inviting a curious, embodied form of engagement.

m3aalq: Speriamo Stia Su

Handmade and woodfired processed wild soil, ashes and clay,
12 x 5 x 7 cm, 2025.
(wild foraged soils and Anagama kiln by Nina Salsotto - Unurgent Argilla)
m3aalq: Speriamo Stia Su © 2025 by Yasmina Lahjij - Yeddin Studio CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

This piece holds a fragment of clay, shaped within the intense environment of ‘Speriamo Stia Su,’ the wood kiln of Nina Salsotto - Unurgent argilla in Boves, Piemonte, Italy.

The Anagama-style single-chamber kiln at Mt. Bisalta, Piemonte, created by Nina Salsotto, was activated in August 2025 in collaboration with fellow ceramists.

‘Pane Ricamato: Barbabietola’

Homemade organic beetroot bread, wild yeast starter and ancient grains, hand embroidery on bread with reclaimed Provençal fabric sewn onto a cotton doily,  circa 20 x 25 cm, 2025.
Pane Ricamato - Fiore di Barbabietola © 2025 by Yasmina Lahjij - Yeddin Studio is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

This work, created upon an invitation from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera – Milano’s “conTENERE” exhibition in Pietraroja, Campania, is crafted from organic beetroot bread made with a wild starter sourced from Lazy Farm in Benevento Province.

Created during a residency within a familial rural environment in Campania, Southern Italy, this work reflects how food - and especially bread - becomes a living testament to the transmission of knowledge, the richness of culture, and the unique identity of a terroir. It embodies the patient care of kneading hands, the wisdom passed down through generations, and the generous spirit of a shared community.

‘Far fiorire le radici’

The residency at Lazy Farm culminated in a communal banquet performance accompanied by a series of ceramic and embroidery works, alongside a large drawing - each piece a crystallisation of the natural world absorbed during a month spent in the bucolic landscape of Sant’Angelo a Cupolo.

Lazy Farm is an innovative and creative farm in the surroundings of Benevento, Southern Italy. It nurtures a regenerative kitchen garden surrounded by fruit trees, an organic wheat field with ancient variety (Risciola), while simultaneously supporting a digital creative agency. This familial, multifunctional space fosters synergy, where each activity enhances and supports the others.

The project, which I envisioned under the title ‘Far Fiorire le Radici,’ arose from a dynamic dialogue that embraces both the farm’s history and its regenerative ethos alongside my personal approach and perspective. Yet, it extends outside these: the rich human cosmogony surrounding the farm revealed profound cultural, historical, and social layers, prompting reflection on the intertwined heritage and stories that define this unique place.

My practice extended far beyond solitary studio work. Instead, my presence in the Montorsi Valley was embraced and fueled by a genuine desire for connection and dialogue. Daily engagement with local inhabitants - through walks in the woods, dinners, pasta workshops, board game evenings, foraging, pagan rituals, cooking, film screenings, concerts, communal meals, and more - became meaningful activities that sparked deep personal reflections on the true meaning of hospitality and what it means to inhabit a place.

On the day of the public presentation, the works - spanning ceramics, drawing, and food design - were created in collaboration with local artisans and the host family. They came together around a kind of open, ever-democratic banquet table, finding their places atop garden straw, nestled in a wheelbarrow, or housed within the garden’s wooden shelter
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At the heart of this residency, and the creative body it inspired, lies a continuous effort to reconnect with the cyclical rhythms that quietly govern all living beings. Ultimately, this unique experience at Lazy Farm transcended solitary creation, blossoming into a radiant collaborative adventure where food, art, and sustainability weave together in a tapestry of shared participation and collective growth.

*Courtesy of Damiano Pontillo, with whom the special breads were made using the grandmother’s wild yeast starter.
Courtesy of Alfonso Pontillo for the special documentary created during the residency, as well as for the light and sound.

Reflecting on the Tammaro Valley

Architects Marta Cataldi and Egidio Giurdanella install "La Saragolla," a site-specific banner Yeddin Studio co-created with Terzo Paesaggio in Morcone last February 2025.

In February, Yeddin traveled to Morcone, in southern Italy, to join the research residency led by Terzo Paesaggio (Milan) - a rural regeneration initiative within the framework of the TAM project.

The residency explored ways to nurture a “community of wheat,” restoring both land and life through a collective vision that interlaces Morcone’s natural and cultural heritage with a hybrid, community-powered bakery open to participants from across Italy and beyond.

In collaboration with the architects of Terzo Paesaggio, Yeddin created a site-specific, blue, hand-embroidered banner celebrating the local ancient wheat variety. The banner accompanied gatherings, a pagan celebration and campus events from February to July, becoming a symbolic thread connecting people and practices.

Halloumi Connection
at THF Radio, Berlin

Co-founder of Halloumi Connection, Yeddin is also committed to selecting, producing, and sharing unique voices and musical creations on THF Radio in Berlin, seeking to elevate distinct forms of expression and reveal scenes that build creative bridges.

The community radio, housed in the historic gatehouse of Tempelhof Airport, serves as a platform for residents, creators, musicians, and artistic initiatives, aiming to connect people and offer local artists a dynamic space for expression.

The programme we propose amplifies a range of local and international voices by fluidly blending music and spoken word in a spontaneous, playful format. Tracks are mixed in a ping-pong style: one member cues a piece while another intuitively prepares the next, responding to the tempo and mood of the previous selection.

This method cultivates a vivid sonic landscape where analog textures merge with digital experimentation, fostering genuine auditory encounters built on both harmony and contrast.

To listen to the recording, click here.

In the background, Yeddin - Yasmine Lahjij, in the foreground, researcher and DJ Jason Brockmeyer, March 2025, THF Radio, Berlin, Germany.

Sound engineer Sergio Albert Gonzalez,
March 2025, THF Radio, Berlin, Germany.

Collective Hand-Building Workshop in Tangier.

In January 2024 in Tangier, in collaboration with the American Language Center and the Tangier American Legation, Yeddin led a series of three workshops inviting teenagers and young adults to explore for the first time pottery.

Participants learned fundamental hand-building techniques - pinching, coiling, and slab-building - navigating gestures that have traveled across ages and cultures. These versatile methods enabled them to create hollow forms, vertical structures, and geometric shapes.

Moving at their own pace, the groups engaged with tow different kinds of clay (brown Moroccan and grey Spanish earthenware), building shapes together or with eyes closed, fostering intimate sensory experiences. They then created elements of their choice through a mindful, slow process rooted in the present moment.

Situated at the crossroads of art and craft, these workshops aimed to offer alternative ways of sharing knowledge and raising awareness among young people.

Teenagers during the worlkshop at the American Legation Museum, January 2024, Tangier, Morocco.

Another workshop was held in collaboration with the association “Les Étoiles du Détroit” in Tangier, engaging teenagers and mothers from the Bni Makada neighborhood.

The Colour of The Earth

The four sculptures created in Tamegroute, Southern Morocco, merges ancient Roman forms with traditional Drâa Valley pottery. Researched and designed by Yeddin, each piece is handbuilt on a mechanical wheel by the skilled potter, Saïd Tama Lkhdar. Crafted from local wild soil from the area's riverbeds, the vessels are glazed in the village’s traditional green colour and fired in an ancestral wooden kiln. They feature distinctive elements such as candle holders, textured edges, and simple bases, contrasting sleek shapes with textured surfaces - a hallmark of Tamegroute’s ceramic tradition, where imperfections are intentionally embraced.

The handbuilt pieces dry a few days outside.

Saïd adjusting the shape of the sculptures on the mechanical wheel.

The four sculptures, after opening the kiln.

One of the seven ancestral kilns in Tamegroute.

One of the sculptures draws inspiration from Piranesi’s vase, a monumental marble krater from ancient Rome. It was restored by the architect and archeologist using numerous Roman fragments from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, initially excavated in the 1770s.

Hand embroidery on reclaimed cotton fabric, eye-shaped amulet handcrafted from wild clay and pit-fired in Palombara Sabina, near Rome. Dimensions: 43 x 31,3 x 4,5 cm, 2024, unique piece.

Occhio Malocchio (uccellini) © 2024
by Yasmine Lahjij - Yeddin Studio
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Occhio Malocchio (uccellini)

This work consists of textured needlework featuring a bird motif inspired by an 18th‑century Provençal boutis embroidery, reminiscent of fabrics from Yeddin’s home region. The composition also includes an eye‑shaped ceramic element, handcrafted from locally processed soil and pit‑fired in Palombara Sabina, near Rome.

Yeddin explores the gestural imprint left by the human hand through the act of stitching.
Her colourful threads form a second layer upon reclaimed fabrics, where herbs, flowers, and small handmade ceramic objects share the same intimate space.
Her interest in textiles and thread grew from her fascination with traditional and ceremonial garments, particularly the ornate vestments of priests and the traditional crochet she collects across the Mediterranean.

Deinanthe Capraggine (hamsa)

Embroidery on mousseline, glazed, processed and wood fired wild local soil from Tamegroute. 46 x 43 x 4,5 cm with frame, 2024, unique piece.

Deinanthe Capraggine (hamsa) © 2024
by Yasmine Lahjij - Yeddin Studio
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

These two hybrid works combine embroidery and ceramics to observe humble, everyday herbs and flowers. Through the processing of wild soil, its modeling, and wood firing, the works weave the two media together, centering on a search for genuine and sensitive ways of understanding the living world. This sensibility is nourished by beekeeping, a practice that has profoundly influenced Yeddin, shaping awareness of other forms of life and our connection to them.

Tetouan to Provence

Golden embroidery on reclaimed linen, 50 x 45 cm, 2024.
Tetouan to Provence © 2024
by Yasmine Lahjij - Yeddin Studio
licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Between transmission and fragments of memory, this work reinterprets the traditional tarz of Tetouan, intertwining it with motifs rooted in Provence. It unfolds as a meditation on origins and influences, on the meaning of roots and the natural ground that sustains them.