Senyals, First International Solo Exhibition by Sadia Pineda Hameed

FrikiFIsh is pleased to share Senyals, the first international solo exhibition by Sadia Pineda Hameed, presented at Tangent Projects in Barcelona. Bringing together sound, film, and sculptural installation, Senyals traces hidden histories of solidarity, resistance, and communication across Wales and Catalonia. Through archival fragments, sonic transmissions, and imagined signals, the exhibition reflects on how voices travel when bodies cannot—bridging geographies, generations, and political struggles.

Senyals – Sadia Pineda Hameed

Curated by Tsering Frykman-Glen

TANGENT PROJECTS
Carrer Martí Codolar 41–43, local 2
08902 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona

27 February – 27 March 2026
Opening reception: Friday 27 February, from 19:00

Featuring sound, installation and film works, Sadia Pineda Hameed’s exhibition Senyals—“signals” in Catalan—explores connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike action and wider global histories of resource extraction and solidarity movements.

Focusing on histories of mutual support between Welsh miners and republican fighters during the Spanish Civil War, the exhibition moves between Wales and Catalonia to consider how voices, signals and covert communications carry solidarity across distance, time and borders when bodies cannot.

The exhibition includes metal sculptures (Long Distant Calls), moving image work (Moving Sound), and a new sculptural sound work (It Belongs Not Only To Us). This new work brings together recordings of Black singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson’s transatlantic transmission to Welsh miners, his speech and performance to republican fighters during the Spanish Civil War, and oral testimonies from Welsh miner brigaders who fought alongside Catalonians. Through this work, Sadia connects these moments of solidarity across sound, geography and temporality, thereby bridging Wales and Catalonia.

About the artist

Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales. Senyals is her first international solo exhibition.

Her work explores latent ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through inherent anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using 16mm film and Hi8 video, sculptural installation, text and performance, her practice imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like.

Sadia’s practice is led by a process of cross-disciplinary semiotic and associative journeying in resistance to Western processes of historicisation and displacement. Mythmaking, melodrama and decoy become playful devices to speak through a “delirious discourse” where personal archives and collective experiences converge.

About the Curator

Tsering Frykman-Glen, originally from Carmarthenshire, Wales, is a curator, arts writer and artist mentor based in Barcelona. She has over 20 years of experience developing exhibitions, site-responsive projects, and artist-led initiatives across independent and alternative art spaces. She was New Media Director at Phatspace gallery in Sydney (2004–2006) and has since founded and co-founded several experimental curatorial platforms, including The Spare Room (London, 2008) and the online project Remote (2011–13). Since 2015, she has been the director of Tangent Projects, guiding its growth from an itinerant initiative into an established independent art space. Most recently, she was an invited curator-in-residence with the PAR Art Residency Programme in Buenos Aires.

Senyals is a continuation and extension of work developed through Perspective(s), a decolonial initiative co-delivered by Arts Council Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Earlier versions of the works were first shown in Signals, Sadia’s solo exhibition at the Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, which ran from 31 May to 31 August 2025.

The exhibition at Tangent Projects re-presents and further develops these works in a new context, marking their first presentation in Spain. Senyals is supported by the Arts Council Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, and the Welsh Government.