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.