Salima Hakim (b. 1978) is a university lecturer and visual artist.
Growing up in a multicultural family, with a mother who once worked
as a seamstress, she was surrounded by textiles not just as objects,
but as carriers of experiences and memories. This personal
connection influences her work, leading her to use hand embroidery
and sewing as methods in her art practice. She explores issues of
gender representation in history and archaeology, using stitching as
both a technical and metaphorical approach, and experiments with
merging scientific and fictional data to question how knowledge is
produced while imagining and reproducing fictional historical
narratives of women. In her current practice, she often works with
embroidery and hand-stitched fabric, employing a historical
descriptive approach to visualise data.
Salima is a lecturer in art history at the Faculty of Art and Design at
Multimedia Nusantara University in Tangerang, Indonesia.