Sadia Salim

Born in 1973 in Hyderabad (Pakistan)
Lives and work in Karachi (Pakistan)

Sadia Salim graduated with a B.Des from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS), Karachi, and completed her Ed.M. in Art and Art Education at Columbia University, New York. She is a practicing artist and recipient of the Commonwealth Arts and Crafts Award and Fulbright Scholarship. She has been part of conferences, residencies and exhibitions in Pakistan as well as internationally. Salim has extensive experience in teaching art and design at the undergraduate level including coordinating the Department of Ceramics at IVS (2005 - 2010). Currently she is Associate Professor and teaches in the Department of Fine Art; she also writes essays on art and craft in newspapers, catalogues and journals.

Of her work for KB17, Sadia Salim states: “A brick – a found object, ubiquitous and functional, centuries old or new, quiet and observant, made by hands of an unknown person and stamped with a factory’s logo. Within its mass, and as Antony Hudek asserts, ‘is a trove of disguises, concealments, subterfuges, provocations and triggers that no singular, embodied and knowledgeable subject can exhaust.’^[1] Therefore the site specific brick installation proposes nothing to the viewers through the words of the artist, enabling them to witness, sense, interpret, and make meaning of the visual. However, as these reticent objects stare back at us, they witness us and our lives, and those who came before us or will come after. What is it that we want these objects to see and interpret?”

[1] Detours of Objects – Antony Hudeck