Video Room: Inuk Silis Høegh Inuk Silis Høegh

The video by artist and filmmaker Inuk Silis Høegh (Qaqortoq, Greenland, 1972) provokes reflections on climate change and the colonial processes that run through the island’s history. His visual narrative juxtaposes vast frozen landscapes with stretches of vegetation, highlighting the effects of global warming.

In The Green Land, Høegh makes a connection between the meaning of the name of the territory, “green land”, and the current scenario of accelerated glacial melting. The color green represents the contrast between the idea of a fertile land, rich in vegetation, and the changing polar landscape. The video, with its contemplative rhythm, presents different states of the four natural elements––water, fire, earth and air––materialized in different shades of this color, sometimes invading the icy scenery, sometimes integrating into the new landscape.

Curated by Teo Teotonio, Curatorial Assistant, MASP, the work documents the artist’s interventions in the landscape, which consist of inserting various elements in shades of green. By intervening in the territory, Høegh highlights the impact of human activity on ongoing environmental change.