Nanna Hänninen

 

Born 1973 in Finland

 

It could be surprising to consider the artworks of Nanna Hänninen as "landscapes". Photographs which, in the artist's own words, "are basically drawings of my body movements where subject and the scenery melt into a single image". Thus the human presence becomes explicit and transforms the scenery decisively, making it abstract although easier to deal with. The light and long exposures configure a language with a syntax that speaks of the individual, immersed into the outside world, and of the control or the lack of control on it.

 

 



Nanna Hänninen, Main Road E75 in Lapland, 2006, 158 x 200 cm, Digital C-Print on Diasec