Pia Arke
Greenlandic Inuit and Danish visual and performance artist, writer and photographer (1958-2007) · Denmark · On the map · Artists · Died at 49
Pia Arke was a Kalaaleq and Danish visual and performance artist, writer and photographer.
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She is remembered and respected for her self-portraits and landscape photographs of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), as well as for her paintings, writings which strove to make visible the colonial histories and complex ethnic and cultural relations between Denmark and Greenland. Throughout her artistic-research practice, Arke used the metaphor of her own mixed-heritage as an opportunity to engage these historical relationships, as well as address significant questions of Arctic Indigenous identity and representation.
