Ulivia uviluk (Olivia Lya Thomassie) is a multidisciplinary artist from Kangirsuk, Nunavik (Canada), whose practice encompasses film, beading, writing and more. She is behind the creation of the Avataq website Tarqitamaat.ca for which she conducted many artist interviews from 2020 to 2022. She has been an actress in the show Épidemie and the theatre play Aalaapi, and worked as the project agent for the play Aukkauti at Aaqsiiq Theatre. Although film and performance remain important to ulivia uviluk, she is currently focussing more on visual arts.
Laila Labba is a Sámi contemporary artist and illustrator from Kárášjohka, Sápmi (Norway). Labba works with analog and digital drawing, painting, and printmaking, and her artistry is rooted in Sámi culture and nature. She holds a bachelor’s degree in illustration from the University of Huddersfield and a course-based bachelor’s degree in Knowledge of Indigenous Cultural Expressions and Arts from Sámi Allaskuvla in Kautokeino.
Now, these two Indigenous artists come together at the Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, where their exhibition will be on view from September 15 to November 16, 2025.
