‘Siorssuk’ means ‘gust of wind’ and is spelled in the old orthography of Kalaallisut. When I was a kid growing up in Nuuk, I was obsessed with spelling things correctly. I once fixated on a local company’s name for years because they had broken a language “rule” I had just learned — that you should never write double ‘s’ after an ‘r’ in Kalaallisut. It drove me mad… until I found out they were using the old spelling system.

Naming my practice siorssuk visuals is a quiet tribute to that kid: curious, a little stubborn, and always trying to make sense of the world. It’s also a nod to the shifting winds of language, identity, and tradition — the kinds of forces that shape much of the work I do.

My name is Alberte Parnuuna. I'm a visual artist, filmmaker, and 2D animator based in Copenhagen, originally from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat. I identify as a mixed Inuk and position myself within the intersections of Indigenous identity and lived hybridity. My practice is grounded in storytelling — personal, political, and poetic — often exploring cultural codes, memory, identity, and the long shadows of colonial history.