Salima Punjani^CA/QC

Salima Punjani is a Montréal-based multisensory artist whose work explores connection, care, and sensory accessibility through immersive sound, touch, and interactive installation. With a background in social work, her practice blends art and relational ethics, transforming biological and everyday sensory data — heartbeats, brainwaves, domestic soundscapes — into environments that invite rest, empathy, and shared experience. Her work engages themes of pleasure, grief, rest as resistance to systemic injustice, and the subversion of medical data toward human connection rather than pathology.

Working across sound, vibration, soft sculpture, multimedia, and participatory storytelling, she creates spaces that challenge traditional sensory hierarchies and contribute to contemporary conversations on accessibility, intimacy, and multisensory practice.

Punjani holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University, and a Master's in Social Work from McGill University, where her research focused on the intersection of arts and care work. Her work has been presented at artist-run centres across Canada, as well as the PHI Centre, the Musée Régional de Rimouski, and the Spatial Sound Institute. She has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Montréal Arts Council, the Quebec Arts Council, IDRC, and SSHRC.