Polar bears and all that other scary shit out there

Greenland has been part of Denmark for over 300 years, first as a colony and then as a province since 1953. Greenland and the Faroe Islands joined the Danish kingdom through a constitutional reform. This was done under pressure from the United Nations, which was working on decolonisation at that time. This meant that after 1953, the Danish state tried to shape Greenlandic society according to its own vision. The impacts this had on Greenlandic society is not widely recognised in the Danish society. In this exhibition, I work with Danish archives and collections about Greenland that have been collected by Danes. And I myself, a Dane that has never been to Greenland, approach the topic from my own prejudices, having grown up with ideas and stories about Greenland that I got from school, the media and my family. As part of the process, I work with individual series that I combine in different ways. The exhibition is not static but a dynamic form where each part contributes to the others in a process of interpretations.