Join us for an evening of reading by poets Monika Herceg & Sadia Pineda Hameed.

“Monika Herceg’s poetry is like a wound through which the world shines—painful, true, saturated with memory and anger, but also with hope for new stories. Her poems, arising from the experience of war, exile, and violence, transcend the boundaries of time and geography to stand up for those who never had a voice. This is poetry that is not afraid to speak of responsibility—for Europe, for women, for those excluded by systems and ideologies. Herceg writes about a history that no longer belongs to the victors, and about beauty that cannot fit into the confines we previously knew.”—Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate

Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer whose work explores latent ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using 16mm film and hi8 video, sculptural installation, text and performance, her work imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like – often through the ‘handheld’.
Her practice is led by a process of cross-disciplinary semiotic, gestural 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.
She often works collaboratively, and co-created print, radio and curatorial project LUMIN (2018 - 2024).