The Necromancer’s Journey to the Moon

4 x color slides, 3 of which a white man (Michael Petersen) is posing as a kind of mythical inuit necromancer/angaqoq in front of what appears to be a bloody or otherwise enchanted mountain river. The water is colered in situ by throwing red pigments into the stream.

(Color transparency in lightbox exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark in 2010: collection of the National Gallery of Greenland)

1988

Measurements: lightbox: 129 x 87 x 15 cm.

Collection of: the Pia Arke Estate