Pia Arke

Pia Arke

Pia Arke (1958–2007) is a Greenlandic Inuk and Danish artist, writer and photographer, known for her self-portraits and landscape photographs of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), as well as for her paintings, collages, performative film works and writing. Arke strove to make visible the silence that surrounded the colonial history and complex political and cultural relationship between Greenland and Denmark.

Published in 2024 to accompany the first international exhibitions of Arke’s work outside of Greenland and the Nordic countries, this book reflects on Arke’s ideas and legacy in a wider international context and aims to demonstrate how the work she made and the ideas she expressed connect with current discourse and contemporary thinking.

Edited by Ros Carter and Sofie Krogh Christensen
Texts by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Woodrow Kernohan, Ros Carter, Alice Maude-Roxby, Mette Sandbye, Tiara Roxanne, Sofie Krogh Christensen, Nivi Christensen, Siri Paulsen, Trinh T. Minh-ha

Softcover
128 pages
Dimensions: 21.5cm x 28cm
ISBN: 9781912431236