Inuuteq Storch (Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland, b. 1989) is one of the most exciting artists working with photography in the Circumpolar North. We are thrilled to announce his upcoming solo exhibition here at Perspektivet Museum, opening this October and featuring works made over the course of his career.
Inuuteq Storch explores and documents everyday life in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), often using analogue cameras given to him by friends and family and creating images that contrast stereotypical representations made by foreign visitors. Storch’s portraits of people and environments, often created in close collaboration with those being photographed, are close-up, tactile and bodily. Taking advantage of different formal elements and photographic techniques, he mixes black and white and colour photography and formats.
Until recently, Storch has been best known for photo books such as Porcelain Souls and Mirrored, but he has also explored the possibilities offered by the exhibition format. With inspiration from music and poetry, he combines photographs from different series in different formats and rhythmic image sequences where the pauses are integral to the whole.
On October 4th, we open an exhibition that spans Storch’s entire career, from the photographic series At Home We Belong (2010), Necromancer (2021-2023) and Soon Will Summer Be Over (2023), to Anachronism (2010-2015), a series of video works based on moving image/film material found in a public archive. Soon Will Summer Be Over was made for the Venice Biennale in 2023, where Storch was the first artist from Kalaallit Nunaat to exhibit in Denmark’s pavilion. Storch was also the youngest artist to date and the first photographer to be shown in the Danish pavilion.
About the Exhibition
The exhibition is a collaboration between Perspektivet Museum and the research project Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic (UrbTrans) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. UrbTrans is supported by The Research Council of Norway and Tromsø Research Foundation.