Laakkuluk Williamson: Nuliaminik Neqilik // The Flesh of Wives
There will be a vernissage on Thursday the 22nd of October at 5 pm for the Canadian Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson’s exhibition ”Nuliaminik Neqilik // The Flesh of Wives” at Nuuk Art Museum.
This is Laakkuluk Williamson’s first visual arts exhibition and it is curated by Taqralik Partridge. The exhibitions consist of video projections, sound, large format photos, beaded works, sculptures and found natural objects. In the central piece of the exhibition Laakkuluk Williamson works with the Greenlandic legend Igimarasussussuaq who ate his wives, as seen from the perspective of the wife who escaped. In the role as the wife, the artist tells the tale of wit and resilience in the face of great trauma.
The themes from the story flow into the rest of the works in the exhibition, and other themes such as family, traditions, foraging and food sovereignty are included. The artist uses corpulence and body image to counter systemic injustices attached to colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, subjugation, dehumanisation and exclusion of racialised women.
The exhibition was shown at Mimosa House in London in the spring of 2026, and will travel to Ottawa, Canada, after the show in Nuuk.
The exhibition is on show at Nuuk Art Museum until the 31st of January 2027. The exhibition is supported by the Greenlandic Art Fund.
Laakkuluk Williamson will do a performance right after the opening on Thursday the 22nd of October at 5pm.
About the artist:
Laakkuluk Williamson is a Canadian-Greenlandic Inuk artist, living in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is a poet and performance artist, working across issues of Indigenous cultural politics, de-colonisation, social activism, climate change and language reclamation. Williamson works in both Kalaallisut and English, and uses uaajeerneq, poetry, theatre, film, music and performance art to tackle topics ranging from colonization, sexuality, intergenerational strength, fear, boundaries, and love. Williamson is the recipient of several art awards in Canada, incl. the 2021 Sobey Art Award. Williamson is a frequent collaborator with other artists. Recently, she was part of the Nuuk International Film Festival 2026 with her VR video “Tartupaluk” co-produced with two other producers.
About the curator:
Taqralik Partridge is an Inuk and Scottish-Canadian curator, artist and writer. She is originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. She worked in communications and arts administration for several years at Avataq Cultural Institute. Partridge is the former director of the Nordic Lab at SAW Gallery in Ottawa, and has worked as a curator for the Art Gallery Of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Guelph and independently for several other museums. Partridge is a former Editor-at-large for the Canadian art magazine Inuit Art Quarterly. She has worked in performance at festivals in Canada and internationally for more than 20 years, as both an Inuit throat singer and performance poet; and her visual and film work has been shown at exhibitions in North America, Australia, Norway, New Zealand and the UK. She currently lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada.