Inuuteq Storch – Breathe the Ice exhibition and catalog
Exhibition design and newspaper-like catalog designed by Spine Studio for Inuuteq Storch’s Breathe the Ice exhibition at Politikens Forhal.
From JP/Politikens Hus:
Through a new commission created especially for Politikens Forhal, the internationally acclaimed Kalaaleq (Greenlandic) artist Inuuteq Storch delves into JP/Politikens Media Group’s photo archive, which holds more than a century of photojournalistic material. Carefully selected photographs from the archive are displayed without chronology in ghost-like, oversized newspaper clippings, thereby highlighting how Danish journalists have depicted Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) over time.
Through this activation of the archive, Storch challenges the Danish media’s gaze on Inuit culture and seeks to reclaim ownership of the images and narratives about his homeland. At a time of intense debate about independence and Denmark’s colonial past, Storch turns the media house’s own representations of Kalaallit Nunaat into a site for negotiation—of gaze, power, and representation. Who is really observing whom—and who has the right to do so?
