Sadia Pineda Hameed

Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre and Big Pit National Coal Museum

Photo by Robin Chaddah-Duke

BIO

Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina-Pakistani artist and writer based in Wales’s Ebbw Valley, focusing on collective and intergenerational trauma through anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using film, installation, text, and performance, and research into capitalist and colonial tools such as epistemicide and ecocide, her work imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like. Her practice incorporates mythmaking and melodrama as playful devices, immersing viewers in a ‘delirious’ discourse where personal archives and collective experiences intersect, encouraging deeper reflection on shared histories and identities.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Working with Llantarnam Grange and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum, Sadia has developed a new body of work to explore how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today. Through considering the collection, conversations and community of the museum with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia forms connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.”

QUOTE

“My work for Perspective(s) explores strategies of resistance from the Welsh mining strikes - which fought for workers’ rights, the protection of land, culture and community - and how these can become symbols of international solidarity for mining strikes today.”

SOCIAL MEDIA / WEBSITE

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