GALLERY 1
AGIMAT – SADIA PINEDA HAMEED
31 MAY – 16 AUGUST 2025
Agimat was a solo exhibition by Sadia Pineda Hameed that explores the history of colonial and folk charms.
Through a collection of objects, sculptures, and video, Sadia considers the histories of alternative value, tokens, and anting-anting (the Filipino belief in amulets and talismans). This explores how a token can simultaneously inhabit and memorialise; gesture protest against; and protect from extraction and land violence.
Sadia worked with Llantarnam Grange and Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum , researching elements of the collection to considers how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today.
Agimat brought different collections of charms together, from a selection originally collected, and displaced, by Edward Lovett (1852 – 1933) a folklorist from Croydon, to a new series of sculptural amulets that draw on lucid dreaming, collective action, and protection against extraction.
Agimat was on display alongside MMMM NOTE, a collaborative artwork by Kerstin Kartscher and Sadia Pineda Hameed in our Billboard Gallery. Drawing on Welsh socialist Robert Owen’s 19th-century labour vouchers, this work creates a playful counterfeit, deconstructing value as imagined rather than issued.
Items from the Robert Owens Museum which inspired this work was also on display as part of Agimat.
For the opening of Agimat we celebrated the launch of artist Sadia Pineda Hameed’s new work with talks, tours, and activities. Find out more here.
Agimat is part of Perspective(s), a collaboration between Arts Council Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, supported by the Welsh Government.
AUDIO DESCRIPTION
An audio description is now an available for Sadia Pineda Hameed’s exhibition Agimat in Gallery 1.
You can listen here:
Exhibition Tour
Agimat Exhibition Text
Edward Lovett Charm Collection
BIG PIT NATIONAL COAL MUSEUM
SIGNALS – SADIA PINEDA HAMEED
31 MAY – 31 AUGUST
Signals was a new body of film, sound, and sculptural work displayed throughout Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum.
Working with Llantarnam Grange, and through considering the collection, conversations and community of Big Pit, with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia Pineda Hameed has formed connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.
Sadia’s film Moving Sound, was screening daily at Big Pit, in the King Coal experience from 3-4pm daily (looping 8 minutes), alongside a series of sculptures.
Find out more here
BILLBOARD GALLERY
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.
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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.
