‘UNTRASLATED’ Janet Rady Fine Art x The Southern Art Hub at VOLTA Basel

UNTRANSLATED brings together the work of Bisila Noha, Luma Nascimento, Pantea Mahrou and Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros, four female artists whose practices examine the ways memory is held, transmitted, and transformed across generations. Presented by The Southern Art Hub and Janet Rady Fine Art at VOLTA Basel 2026, the exhibition moves across Brazil, Iran, Spain, Equatorial Guinea, and the wider diaspora, tracing connections between spirituality, ecology, migration, ancestry, and material culture.

Ash, soil, clay, textiles, glass, pigment, found objects, photographs, and ceramic forms recur throughout the exhibition as carriers of experience and remembrance. These materials hold traces of labour, ritual, displacement, survival, and belonging, revealing histories embedded within landscapes, bodies, and cultural traditions.

Each artist approaches these questions through a distinct visual language. Bisila Noha explores identity, migration, and cultural inheritance through a ceramic practice informed by her Equatorial Guinean heritage and diasporic experience.
Luma Nascimento examines the relationship between ecological systems and ancestral knowledge, revealing the ways memory remains embedded within the natural world. Pantea Mahrou engages philosophical and spiritual traditions through material and symbolic forms that invite contemplation and reflection.
Sabrina Da Silva Medeiros investigates memory through processes of fragmentation and reconstruction, considering how personal and collective histories are continually assembled, preserved, and reimagined.

Together, the artists present works that acknowledge the complexity of memory and the persistence of knowledge beyond formal archives and institutions.
UNTRANSLATED invites a sustained encounter with histories that continue to shape the present, opening a space for reflection on the many ways meaning is carried through material, gesture, and lived experience.