Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipino/ Pakistani artist and writer based in Cardiff. She works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma; in particular, the latent ways we speak about this through dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets as an anti-colonial strategy inherent to us. Her practice is led by semiotic and associative journeying, and a trust in the intuitive process.
She often works with Beau W Beakhouse (beauwbeakhouse.com) as a collaborative duo based in Cardiff, Wales, whose practice dramatises, reconstructs and reenacts autonomous and alternate futures. their work often takes the form of speculation, resistance and site-building at the intersection of performance and installation. In particular they continuously engage with text and the archive, undoing and disassembling relationships between language and colonialism; and unfolding processes of decay and disassembly as alternatives to western models of preservation. They look to revivification, working against the static categories of institutional models. Together they are on the Freelands Fellowship 2022-4, and run collective, small press and radio project LUMIN (lumin-press.com).
AWARDS
Freelands Fellowship 2022-4The Arts Foundation Futures Award longlist 2022
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists recipient 2021
Literature Wales New Writers Bursary and Mentoring recipient 2020
Rising Star Wales Award 2020
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023forthcoming, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2022
‘(misunderstanding), (accomodation), (performance), (loss)’, Brent Biennial 2022, In the House of my Love, in partnership with Build Hollywood and Studio Voltaire. Produced by Metroland Cultures
2021
‘it resonates like spalting wood’ with Beau W Beakhouse, Arcade/Campfa
2020
‘Song of My Life’, Bluecoat Liverpool
‘Local 37’ with Beau W Beakhouse, MOSTYN
‘tiny bubbles in the wine’, HOAX
GROUP EXHIBITION
2023forthcoming, Freelands Space, London
forthcoming, g39, London
2022
Thinking Green, Glynn Vivian, Swansea
I Watched in Amazement, curated by HOAX, The Mosaic Rooms, London
2021
The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN, Llandudno
Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff
2020
(un)seen (un)heard, National Museum Cardiff
2019
Made in Roath Open, g39
A New Mecca, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff
2018
Analogue, Three Doors Up (Arcade/Campfa)
RESIDENCIES
2022residency at The Museum of Applied Arts (Poznan National Museum), Poznan
Platfform, Peak Cymru, Abergavenny
2021
Unidee, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella
Tangent Projects, Barcelona
Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff
Catalyst Arts Spring Online Residency, Belfast
2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru
Hunan-Iaith poetry and translation residency, Where I’m Coming From and Y Stamp, supported by Literature Wales
2019
WARP Library Residency, g39, Cardiff
Ty Newydd Emerging Writers, funded by Literature Wales and Wales Arts Review
Curatorial Residency, SHIFT, Cardiff
2017
LUMIN Library residency, Three Doors Up (Arcade/Campfa), Cardiff
PERFORMANCE
2022forthcoming with Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London
2021
‘Borrow Tomorrow’, The Mosaic Rooms, London
‘PAMPHLET BOMB’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
‘speculation’, Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff
2020
‘return etc’, Digithon Festival, arts headliner, Wales Arts Review, online
2019
featured poet, Where I’m Coming From, g39, Cardiff
‘Bearing Witness to Truth’, National Museum Cardiff and Artes Mundi, Cardiff
2018
‘The Crypt’, Gentle/Radical’s A New Mecca, The Temple of Peace, Cardiff
‘Decolonising Heritage’ with Gentle/Radical, Bay Arts, Cardiff, commissioned by the Eisteddfod & the National Trust
featured poet, Porridge, Theatre Deli, London
featured poet, Women & War: An Un-silencing, commissioned by Gentle/Radical, The Open University and Festival of Voice
PUBLICATION
2022HON: Women Artists in Wales, H’mm Arts Foundation Press
UTYPIA, Oriel Davies Gallery
2021
Merched yn Gwneud Celf zine, Eisteddfod
feature in ‘Welsh experimental writers’ article, Poetry Wales 57.1 Summer 2021
DOUBLE, Takeaway #9
Imagining Internationally Connected Practice (consulting artist), Arts Council Wales
2020
Undefining the Artist, Wales Arts Review
‘Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema’, BFI
LOVE Magazine, Love Diaries vol. 1
‘After ‘Evening’, Kurt Schwitters’, ZARF #14
2019
‘Tortang Tolang’, Porridge Magazine: Comfort Foods
‘Site Ruin’, Amberflora Issue 6
interview, Wide Vicinity
2018‘
Save Our Sculpture’, Wales Arts Review
‘Enshrinement’, LUMIN
‘For you, after a film’, Porridge Magazine Issue 1
'To (Un)speak Madness re: Derrida, Foucault, Artaud', LUMIN Journal 1
TALKS
2022forthcoming, ESEA artists in Wales roundtable
visiting artist, Cardiff Metropolitan - Fine Arts
2021
HerStories // Shelf Life, Iniva
Dismantling Structural Inequality In Your Cinema Talk, Glasgow Film Festival (2021), This Way Up Festival (2020)
2020
Women in Publishing Symposium panelist at Bangor University
2019
guest critic, BBC Radio Wales’ Arts Review Show
interview, Wide Vicinity
‘Dis/establishing the archive’, Archiving Gender symposium paper presentation, Cardiff University
2018
Gentle/Radical’s Imagination Forum #4, symposium at Sustainable Studios, Cardiff
A NEW MECCA
2018. film, performance, installation
group show/event. with Beau W Beakhouse. commissioned by Gentle/Radical; funded by Arts Council of Wales.
A New Mecca, Temple of Peace, Cardiff
Golden Key (film) in response to the inevitable decomposition of archives, contemporary rewriting, loss and renewal; and the effects of a monument on a people.
Contemplating Inner Spaces (performance, accompanying sound experimentation and installation) responding to the crypt beneath the Temple of Peace; deconstructing crypts and archival material (E. R. Eaton), on resonating internal space with external change.
A New Mecca, Temple of Peace, Cardiff
Golden Key (film) in response to the inevitable decomposition of archives, contemporary rewriting, loss and renewal; and the effects of a monument on a people.
Contemplating Inner Spaces (performance, accompanying sound experimentation and installation) responding to the crypt beneath the Temple of Peace; deconstructing crypts and archival material (E. R. Eaton), on resonating internal space with external change.
