The critically acclaimed exhibition Rise of the Sunken Sun by the artist Inuuteq Storch opens on 9 May 2025 at Fotografisk Center in an adjusted format. The exhibition, which received great attention in the Danish Pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2024, allows the audience to experience a nuanced narrative of Storch’s homeland, Kalaallit Nunaat (which means land of the Kalaallit, the Greenlanders) through his personal and unique approach to the photographic medium.
The exhibition has already been recognised as an important contribution to both art history and history: Storch was both the first artist from the North Atlantic part of the Danish Kingdom and the first photographer to have a solo exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Storch challenges the long-standing tendency for outsiders – rather than the people of Kalaallit Nunaat themselves – to shape the visual history of Kalaallit Nunaat. In Rise of the Sunken Sun, Storch presents a multifaceted view of Kalaallit Nunaat through six thematic photographic series. The exhibition includes Storch's intimate and poetic portrayals of daily life in his hometown of Sisimiut, images from his family's photo archives, as well as a digitized compilation of historical photographs by John Møller, the first professional Kalaaleq photographer. The newest works consist of photographs from Qaanaaq, the northernmost town, as well as the almost spherical, transparent images in the series Necromancer.
Source: Fotografisk Center