Nanna Hänninen | Vanishing View

Persons Projects is proud to present Nanna Hänninen’s exhibition Vanishing View. In the selected works, Hänninen focuses on current environmental issues that affect global communities, while intrinsically warning all of a future that is fast approaching. Her minimalist work conceptually challenges our perceptions of climate change by exploring through photography the gradual disappearance of uniquely diverse ecosystems. Exploring these impacts, Hänninen combines different, seemingly detached objects and places. In merging these factors together, the artist has found her own way to visually address the urgency of climate protection.

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Nanna Hänninen’s photographs have, for over two decades, challenged our perceptions of reality by creating visual dichotomies. Having played a pivotal role within the Helsinki School since the late 1990s, she was one of the first Finnish female artists to utilize the photographic process as a conceptual tool in realizing large abstract images.

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Primary themes in Hänninen’s work range from the processing of memory, to the innate sense of isolation and how they all work together to form a collective, universal experience. Throughout Hänninen’s artistic career, she has consistently questioned how we mentally envision the presentation of space through our emotions, anxieties, and external threats. Her work explores how we use memory as a source through association to understand the future, as both are constructions of the mind that help us in finding the balance between the here and now.