Unlike their Romantic antecedents, the photographic or video-based works in True North challenge the notion of a pure, unchangeable North with the idea that our visions of the North are structured through our own varying positions. A fantastical place of fear, desire, refuge, conquest and decay, the North has played an increasingly important role in the work of contemporary artists interested in the socio-political as well as aesthetic notions of the sublime. Featured artists inclue Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Elger Esser, Thomas Flechtner, Roni Horn, Armin Linke and Orit Raff.