Inuuteq Storch’s MoMA PS1 debut captures daily life in Greenland
Inuuteq Storch, a photographer from Greenland, has a debut exhibition at MoMA PS1 in Queens titled “Soon Will Summer Be Over,” on view through Feb. 23, the New York Times review says. Jason Farago writes that Storch, 36, photographs everyday life across Greenland with “lyricism, wit and a fair amount of melancholy,” combining raw images with an archival effort to preserve Greenlanders’ vernacular photography and home movies.
He was the first Greenlander—and the first photographer—to represent Denmark at the 2024 Venice Biennale, where he superimposed the words “KALAALLIT NUNAAT” over the pavilion’s colonial inscription. The exhibition includes the title series, shot in 2023 in Qaanaaq, the northernmost town, which was rebuilt in the 1950s after inhabitants were relocated for a U.S.
airbase; those images were made during the never‑ending day when the sun shines 24 hours. MoMA PS1 also shows Storch’s breakthrough series “Keepers of the Ocean” (shot 2015–2019), and Farago notes recurring subjects such as young people sunbathing, sled dogs, lovers, and scenes that register alcoholism, high unemployment and a high suicide rate.
Storch’s archival project is central to the show. After finding old film canisters while dumpster diving as a teenager, he has gathered Super‑8 footage for a two‑channel video installation, “Anachronism,” drawn from the public archive INUIAAT ISAAT.
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