Nuliaminik Neqilik
The Flesh of Wives

Laakkuluk Williamson
Curated by Taqralik Partridge

24 April - 27 June 2026
Opening: 23 April 6-8PM
Performance at the British Museum 24 April 6:30PM

Press Release

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. 

The exhibition’s title and central piece of work – a mixed media installation Nuliaminik Neqilik – comes from a Greenlandic story of Igimaarasussuaq, a cannibal who ate the flesh of his wives, and the revenge of his last wife Masaannaaq, who grew to an immense size. In this new work, Laakkuluk champions the voice of Masaannaaq as an emancipated protagonist. Colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism and racism subjugate, dehumanise and exclude racialised women. In Nuliaminik Neqilik, Laakkuluk focuses on corpulence, body image and strength as a way to own space.

On loan from the National Gallery of Canada for the exhibition, will be Nannuppugut!, which translates as “We killed a polar bear!”. This work takes its name from Laakkuluk’s family’s real-life encounter with a polar bear. 

This exhibition was developed with the support of SAW’s Nordic Lab initiative, a research and production space in Ottawa, Canada, dedicated to artists from circumpolar nations.

Public Programme

24 April - Performance by Laakkuluk at the British Museum 6:30PM
Free and open to all, no booking required - please congregate in the great court of the British Museum opposite the entrance to the library.

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About Laakkuluk Williamson

An internationally acclaimed Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) artist, Laakkuluk Williamson is the recipient of the inaugural 2018 Kenojuaq Ashevak Memorial Award, the 2021 Sobey Art Award and the 2024 University of Calgary Alumni Award, amongst many others. She is a performance artist, poet, actor, curator, storyteller, and writer, widely recognized for her contemporary practice of uaajeerneq (Greenlandic mask dancing) and her collaborative approach to making art. Laakkuluk examines Inuit feminism, food systems, storytelling, climate change, humour, sexuality, language reclamation, Inuit sociopolitical circumstances, hidework and beading. Laakkuluk is a strong advocate for Inuit artists. She lives and works in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

About Taqralik Partridge 

As an independent curator, Taqralik Partridge works closely with Inuit and other circumpolar Indigenous artists with an Inuit approach to community and family. She creates exhibitions for Inuit first, prioritising Inuit languages and creative practices. Taqralik Partridge has worked as the Associate Curator of Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and adjunct curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph. She has co-curated exhibitions for the  Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Ottawa Art Gallery. Taqralik is the former Director of the Nordic Lab at SAW (Ottawa). Her visual work has travelled internationally, including to the 2020 Sydney Biennale and in the touring exhibitions Among All These Tundras (2020) and Radical Stitch. Her work was included in The Baroness at Mimosa House (2022). Taqralik was the first Inuit Editor-at-large for the Inuit Art Quarterly.

For additional information, interview requests or press images please contact: 
Nicola Jeffs
nj@nicolajeffs.com 
07794 694 754