This spring, Mimosa House will present Nuliaminik Neqilik (The Flesh of Wives), an exhibition of Greenlandic-Canadian Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson’s new and recent works. Nuliaminik Neqilik will be Laakkuluk’s first solo exhibition of visual work, which will subsequently tour to Nuuk Art Museum, Greenland and SAW Centre, Canada. This exhibition is curated by Taqralik Partridge, an Inuk curator and artist who is known for her community and family-based approach to working with Inuit and other circumpolar artists.
Nuliaminik Neqilik speaks to the current international discourse on Inuit identity, repatriation, and agency over belongings, bodies and territories; making this an even more timely and urgent project while the world’s eyes are on Greenland and the circumpolar region. The artist and curator have described Nuliaminik Neqilik as being a small revolutionary act in that it will be presented in a coloniser’s country and close to The British Museum, an institution whose history is bound up with colonial power and expansion. Bringing the exhibition to Nuuk will be a homecoming for the artist and her work, as her maternal family is originally from Maniitsoq, Greenland.
Photo credit: Laakuluk Williamson (in collaboration with Jamie Griffiths) White Liar and the Unknown Shore_Frobisher and the Queen 2021 archival pigment print on canvas