Inuuteq Storch’s MoMA PS1 debut documents everyday life in Greenland
Inuuteq Storch, a 36-year-old photographer from Greenland, has a debut exhibition at MoMA PS1 in Queens titled "Soon Will Summer Be Over," on view through Feb. 23, the review says. The show assembles work from across Greenland, including the series "Keepers of the Ocean" (2019) and pictures shot in Qaanaaq in 2023 during the midnight sun.
The article describes Storch’s images as lyric, witty and melancholy, focused on everyday life and the ‘‘joys and mundanities of young and old alike.’’ Storch’s project pairs raw, romantic pictures made on richly grained analog film and slow exposures with an archival mission: he rescues vernacular Greenlandic photography and home movies.
The review recounts that as a teenager he found canisters of old film while dumpster diving and later built a two-channel video, "Anachronism," from Super-8 footage documenting life before and after Greenland won home rule in 1979. The work also bears traces of colonial and geopolitical histories noted in the review: Qaanaaq was rebuilt in 1953 after inhabitants were relocated for a U.S.
airbase; images in the show include ramshackle houses, mass-market religious prints and scenes of seal butchery. The article links the photographs to contemporary social problems it mentions, including alcoholism, high unemployment and a ‘‘shockingly high suicide rate.’’ The critic compares Storch’s eye to Larry Clark and Wolfgang Tillmans but says he has a less sentimental and more socially attentive approach.
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