In October 2025, artist Julie Grenier (Taqramiut Nipingat Incorporated) presented her first public artwork, Aulajinartut. The artwork was installed outdoors on the face of an apartment building in Nuuk, Greenland during the Suialaa Arts Festival.Aulajinartut is a digital collage featuring multimedia elements such as family photographs, beadwork, plants, sewing notions, a fishing lure, and animal bones. “Every element was a reminder of some part of my childhood.” 

Aulajinartut, meaning remembering, encompasses Grenier’s memories of her grandmother, or familial fishing practices and spending time on the land. The collage features images of favourite fishing locations, campsites, and pictures spanning four generations of family: Grenier’s great-grandparents, grandparents, mother and her son. The sewing notions and trims are another way Grenier weaves family ties into the work as the materials belonged to her grandmother. “My grandmother had to have the first ice fishing hole. And then, my grandfather's job was to make a whole bunch of other holes everywhere, because if she didn't get a fish within five minutes, she was moving to a different spot to catch fish. We would fill a sled with fish in a weekend.” 

Grenier is an accomplished fashion designer and beadwork artist, though Aulajinartut was her first piece of public visual artwork.The focal points of the work are two beaded fish, one is in red and brown tones, the other blue and silver to represent how fish scales reflect light differently during the daytime and nighttime. When asked about the creative process in this artwork, she said “I just kept coming back to the fish. Fish is something that ties a lot of us, no matter where we're from.”  

This installation at Suialaa was especially significant to Grenier as it was exhibited on Inuit land, which is meaningful to her due to the shared culture and traditions. On working with concepts of memory and familial stories, Grenier explains: “It's so rooted in our process to think back to our ancestry, and also because we're regaining that knowledge, it's something that was taken away and that we're really working hard to regain, and it's something that we have in common with all colonized, Indigenous societies.”