Le Bicolore – La Maison du Danemark in Paris presents, from September 19 to November 23, 2025, the exhibition Gardiens de l’Océan dedicated to the Inuit artist Inuuteq Storch, who notably represented Denmark at the 60th Venice Art Biennale in 2024. Through this exhibition, Storch deconstructs the dominant narratives and preconceived ideas about Greenland, his homeland, by offering a personal, intimate and political reading of his environment and his heritage.
The exhibition’s journey is structured around four main themes: the sublime, the intimate, intergenerational knowledge, and the colonial past and future. Each space explores one of these themes through a selection of works from his iconic series Keepers of the Ocean, Soon Will Summer Be Over, and Anachronism.
The works presented are taken from the vast photographic series published in the book Keepers of the Ocean in 2022. As in the previous series At Home We Belong, Inuuteq Storch returns to Sisimiut, his hometown, thus affirming the strength of the local territory and the community anchoring of his photographic practice.
These deeply intimate images explore the materiality of everyday life: the tactility of surfaces and materials—clothing, snow, skin, hair, food, metal, porcelain. They create a fragmented self-portrait of the artist, but also of his community, in an organic relationship between the body, objects, and places. Some shots, deliberately very close, reveal faces or blurred details, establishing a form of physical presence of the viewer in the image, almost corporeal.
Born in 1989, Inuuteq Storch is a Kalaallit visual artist and photographer. A graduate of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and the Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen, his work combines family archives, personal narratives, and documentary observations. In 2024, he represented Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale, bringing Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) to the Danish Pavilion in a unique way.
Inuuteq Storch : Gardiens de l’Océan
From September 19 to November 23, 2025
Opening on September 18, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Free admission, subject to availability
Le Bicolore, Maison du Danemark
142 Avenue des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris
Tuesday-Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
www.lebicolore.dk
