Katarina Pirak Sikku

Katarina Pirak Sikku (b. 1965) is an artist and lives in Jåhkåmåhkke. In March 2021, she presented her latest work “Agálaččat bivttastuvvon sohkagotti ivnniiguin Ihkuven aajkan maadtoej klaeriejgujmie gåårveldihkie” at Carolina Rediviva at Uppsala University. The work dresses the remaining photo albums after the Institute of Racial Biology in a careful case based on the area’s costume tradition. The material is cloth, tin wire, beads, ribbon and lace. Katarina Pirak Sikku wants to give the story back to these black and white photographs by forever wrapping and covering the photographed with their own stories and traditions.