BOOKS
NOW IS NOW by Nanna Hänninen
Kodoji press
Time is the given in Nanna Hänninen’s conceptual photography practice – as it is in all photography. Photography records an instant and marks too that it has passed and is gone. Furthermore, Hänninen’s book NOW IS NOW and the exhibition it accompanied, ‘How about the Future’ at Serlachius Museums Gösta in 2020, are marked by her investigation of how we conceive of and comprehend time. NOW IS NOW is composed of images by Hänninen, both her own source images and sculptures and works based on found images, interleaved through a text by Finnish philosopher Tuomas Nevanlinna and bookended by an excerpt from curator Laura Kuurne’s essay on Hänninen’s work.
Paging through the book, which fits neatly into the reader’s hand, one encounters a reflection on how the understanding of time has developed in Western thinking, how it might be otherwise, while looking at images marked by their transience, such as sculptures braced around blocks of ice, historic photographs or further works that illustrate an action in two parts. Hänninen is moved by climate change to review how we look at the future; her work expresses the urgency of rejecting the methods we habitually employ to consider history and time passing. Instead, she fashions experimental models of what might be to come. Photographic artist Nanna Hänninen (b. 1973) lives and works in Kuopio, Finland. She studied at the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland, the Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung in Zürich and she is a 2002 graduate of the University of Art of Photography Department in Helsinki. She is a member of the Helsinki School and one of the most internationally successful Finnish photographic artists.
Texts by Laura Kuurne and Tuomas Nevanlinna, English, 11.5 ×14.8 cm, 160 pages, 56 color and black & white plates, cloth-bound softcover
Kodoji Press, Baden 2020, ISBN 978-3-03747-099-2
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RECORDINGS by Nanna Hänninen
Kodoji press
”It could be surprising to consider the artworks of Nanna Hänninen (Rovaniemi, Finland, 1973) 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 creates music scores punctuated by her heartbeat, her movements and her laugh, all life experiences in a real world that amplifies their sounds like a percussion box. The frontiers among the individual and the universal are blurred by an artifact, the photographic camera, that plays the role of a prosthesis unifying the subject and the object, the self and the other. All in all, Nanna dares challenging the paradigm of photography and its canonical representation of reality.” Urs Stahel, Recordings
Photographs by Nanna Hänninen
Text by Urs Stahel
Clothbound hardcover with silkscreen
27 x 38 cm
48 pages
Published by KODOJI PRESS, Baden 2007
ISBN 978-3-03747-000-8
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FEAR AND SECURITY by Nanna Hänninen
Forlaget Bjerggaard
Fear and Security the danish publishing house Forlaget Bjerggaard published a book “Fear and Security” presenting the work of the photographer Nanna Hänninen. The book presents Nanna Hänninen's work from 2000 to 2003. Anna Krogh's essay deals with Nanna Hänninen's works on relations in the field of European contemporary art. In his writing, Krogh examines e.g. The influence of Düsseldorf school artists such as Thomas Demand and Andreas Gursky on Hänninen's production and Hänninen's relationship with early modernist photographic publications such as Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. More Krogh is looking for comparisons for Hänninen among Finnish contemporary artists. Such are e.g. Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Salla Tykkä. The theme of the book “Fear and Security” (“Fear and Security”) is very topical. “Hänninen’s“ Fear and Security ”series of information about society’s psychological and mental mechanisms is known,” Krogh writes.
Photographs by Nanna Hänninen
Text by Anna Korgh and Timothy Persons
Clothbound hardcover
20 x 25 cm
25 image plates
Published by Forlaget Bjerggaard , Copenhagen 2003
ISBN 87-91132-00-2
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