Ludimila Lima (1993) is a visual artist who lives and works in Salvador, Bahia. She began her artistic journey through drawing, painting on fabric, and graffiti, and today works as a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. Inspired by the stories of resistance of her ancestors and by the daily life of Bahia, Ludimila understands her art as both expression and (re)existence. Through the traces of watercolor, acrylic, and the ancestral materiality of clay, she externalizes what her eyes, body, and senses perceive of the world. Her work builds a particular poetic universe where the fluidity of water and the solidity of earth meet to shape the memories, affections, and experiences that traverse her existence. A daughter of the Recôncavo Baiano—a territory of memory, resistance, and knowledge—her works interweave ancestry, belonging, culture, and affect.

In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition at Casa da Cultura Galeno D’Avelírio, in Cruz das Almas, and at Museu Galeria Hansen Bahia, in Cachoeira. In 2024, she participated in Memórias para Dona Antônia, Acervo da Laje, Salvador; Raízes: Começo, Meio, Começo, Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira – MUNCAB; and Confluências e Fabulações Líquidas, Museu de Arte Moderna – MAM/BA. That same year, she undertook an artistic residency and solo exhibition at Instituto Guimarães Rosa, in Maputo, Mozambique. In 2025, she will participate in the group show Ritmos Visuais: Uma Jornada pela História da Micareme at Sesc Feira de Santana. Lima was part of Afrotonizar.Lab and Pivô Salvador residencies.

Trono ancestral do Gantois (2025) pays homage to the strength and continuity of the ancestralities that inhabit the Gantois terreiro, one of Bahia’s most important spaces of Afro-Brazilian tradition and resistance. The central figure, seated on a throne, represents the royalty, dignity, and spirituality of Mãe Menininha do Gantois. While the cowrie shells and beads evoke the sacred and the oral traditions passed through generations. The undefined face opens space for the collective presence of those who came before and of those who continue to keep alive the Afro-Brazilian heritage. The work proposes an encounter with the memory, faith, and legacy that sustain the continuity of life and culture.