Her practice is led by semiotic and associative journeying, and a trust in the intuitive process. She is also co-founder of LUMIN, a small press, curatorial collective and radio programme for experimental, radical and personal literature & art. 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. Sadia Pineda Hameed is an artist, writer and independent curator based in Cardiff. These include the difficulty of telling stories about familial trauma as well as how collectivised experiences and memories pass spoken and unspoken between parent and child or here between mother and daughter.

The Song of My Life follows many of the same themes of tiny bubbles. One part will be voiced by the artist while the other voice will be absent. The video knowingly parodies a popular karaoke style video with the text appearing as lyrics for a duet. Pineda Hameed playfully creates intuitive links between a mother’s story, Filipino traditions of oral history and Filipino artist David Medalla’s kinetic sculpture Cloud Canyons.Īt Bluecoat Pineda Hameed presents a new video that also focuses on matrilineal storytelling entitled The Song of My Life (2020). Her most recently exhibited film, tiny bubbles in the wine (2019) is an evocative collaged film that relays the artist’s mother’s previously untold experiences of migrating from the Philippines to the UK. She is interested in the ways that dreaming, telepathic communion and the passing on of secrets might act as forms of resistance and as anti-colonial strategies. Pineda Hameed works in film, installation, text and performance to explore collective and inherited trauma. Both artists address ideas of inheritance in their work, particularly the stories that are passed down within families, especially from mothers, and the childhood memories and experiences that shape the present.

London 1995) was invited to show alongside Undo Things Done by Sean Edwards.

Bluecoat: Sadia Pineda Hameed: The Song of My LifeĬardiff based artist, writer and independent curator Sadia Pineda Hameed (b.

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