MMMM NOTE
Kerstin Kartscher and Sadia Pineda Hameed
MMMM NOTE was created by artists Sadia Pineda Hameed and Kerstin Kartscher to reimagine material representations of value.
Developed after research at the Robert Owen Museum in Newtown, MMMM NOTE acts as a speculative voucher from a future, where value is measured through irrational, ‘delirious’ modes of intuition, belief and conjuring.
The voucher is both an artifact and amulet for a world where value flows through collective fantasy rather than market demand, and rest is valued as a space of productivity and radical activity.
Drawing on Robert Owen’s 19th-century labour vouchers, this Billboard creates a playful counterfeit, deconstructing value as imagined rather than issued. Taking its title from David Medalla’s MMMMMMM…Manifesto (1965), in which the artist dreams of ‘sculptures without hope, with waking and sleeping hours.’.
MMMM NOTE will be on display from May 2025 – April 2026.
There will be an opening event, artist talk, and other activities on Saturday 31 May, alongside Sadia’s solo exhibition Agimat.
Find out more here.
MMMM NOTE is part of Perspective(s), a collaboration between Arts Council Wales and National Museum Wales, supported by the Welsh Government.
KERSTIN KARTSCHER
Kerstin Kartscher is a German artist who lives in London. Kerstin’s main body of work is based on drawings, in ink or marker pen, on paper or fabric. These drawings are often combined with found or made objects, presented in installations. Inspired by recreational spaces, Kerstin likes to offer places not owned or ruled, with multi-perspective-horizons and fragments of non- and existing architecture, sometimes visited by females of courage.
Recently, Kerstin won the Bridget Riley fellowship at the British School at Rome 2023-2024, where she worked with the Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestito (CSOA) phenomenon, autonomous community centre squats in Rome.
SADIA PINEDA HAMEED
Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales. Her work explores latent ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through inherent anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using film, installation, text and performance, her work further imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like.
Her practice is led by a process of cross-disciplinary semiotic and associative journeying in resistance to western processes of historicisation and displacement. Mythmaking, melodrama, decoy, unearthing and hiding become playful devices within a ‘delirious’ discourse or logic where personal archives and collective experiences converge.
ABOUT PERSPECTIVE(S)
Whose voices are heard in museums, whose histories are told, and how does exploring the past shape the future of anti-racism? These are the critical questions that seven ethnically and culturally diverse artists are tackling through Perspective(s), a bold arts programme in which the artists are retelling and reimagining the stories of Welsh objects and history, offering fresh perspectives that challenge preconceptions and bring marginalised narratives to the fore.
A collaboration with Arts Council of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Perspective(s) forms part of Wales’s Anti-Racist Action Plan, with support from the Welsh Government.
Find out more here.
