
The North is an exhibition at the Nordic House Children’s Library that invites visitors into a creative and imaginative space inspired by northern nature, glaciers, and fairytale worlds. The North opens at the same time as the art exhibition Ripples: Shifting Realities in the Arctic, in the Hvelfing exhibition space, and the artists’ works can also be found on the walls in the children’s exhibition. The emphasis is on children and families being able to stay, create, and work artistically under the influence of the works in the exhibition. Works by children from Höfn in Hornarfjörður and Snæfellsbær, who live in the vicinity of glaciers, create the basic atmosphere of the exhibition and evoke connections with ice, light, silence, and the power of nature. Students at Hagaskóli have designed a fairytale world where visitors can step into another reality, including having a cozy time inside a tent in the spirit of the Sami nomads, where ideas about travel, shelter, and togetherness are...