Lina Hashim (she/her) is a visual artist and performer, born 1978 in Kuwait City, and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2020. Throughout Hashim’s practice, she engages in a critical, nuanced dialog about and with religion, on the one hand as a woman raised in Islam and on the other hand as a critical viewer. In this way, her practice works and functions both as investigations and revelations of parts of Islam that are usually hidden from the public eye. Hashim’s practice also works from a feminist aspect, which is evident in the work Without Wind (2012), photographs of Muslim women’s hair under their headscarves. Unlawful Meetings (2014) explores the sexual double standard that exists between Muslim women and Muslim men, demonstrated through the principle of chastity. Suicide Bombers (2016) focuses on the belief that female suicide bombers in paradise are given a completely different status than their male counterparts. The work The Touch (2020) is about Hashim’s own personal life experiences, performed in three parts; a lecture- performance, a dance and an installation.