WALKS FROM DUST TIL DAWN 2008

Digital C-prints on Security Glass

Size 284,1 m2

Wall 1: 4450 x 4450 cm (19,8m2)

Wall 2: 4450 x 4450 cm (19,8m2)

Wall 3: 4450 x 18320 cm (81,5 m2)

Wall 4: 4450 x 18320 cm (81,5 m2)

Roof: 4450 x 18320 cm (81,5 m2)

Destination: Government Building Blåmannen, Stockholm (SE)

Commissioned by: Sweden Project by Statens Konstrådet (SE)

Implementation: Förstoringsateljen, Stockholm (SE)

Nanna Hänninen ́s Walks from dusk 'til dawn is the largest photographic art work ever mounted in Sweden. Over 200 square metres of nearly abstract, highly evocative photographs cover the entire reception building of the new entrance hall of the Government Offices of Sweden, designed by the architects Ahrbom & Partner. Working with an extended exposure time, she allows the camera to trace her own body movements while at the same time registering the pulsating cityscape around her. The slightest tremble and heartbeat are conjoined in the photograph with the city’s intensive flow of traffic and information. Subject and landscape merge into a single image.

JUNGLE

Print on polymeric pvc film clear with uv inks, permanent installation on glass

Size 198 x 1033 cm

Destination: Kuopio employment office/Senate properties 

Commissioned by: State Works of Art Board/State Art Collections 

Implementation: Labor Grieger, Düsseldorf (DE)

This public artwork has been destroyed by the buildings current owner.

ELECTRIC POWERPLANT OF KUOPIO: VERSION IN RED

Print on polymeric pvc film clear with uv inks, permanent installation on glass 

Size 205 x 314 cm

Destination: Kuopio employment office/Senate properties 

Commissioned by: State Works of Art Board/State Art Collections 

Implementation: Labor Grieger

This public artwork has been destroyed by the buildings current owner.

Jungle and Electronic Powerplant of Kuopio: Version in Red continue my New Landscapes series, with photographs of famous metropolises, strategically important places and buildings, airports, highways, etc. These Urban Landscapes are part of the body movement that can be seen with photographic material in rhythmic lines. As a result of the long exposure time, the images combine the subject's lights and into my body movement. To me these images, taken at night on several rooftops in Stockholm, New York e.g., are like small performances captured on light sensitive material. Reality is drawn with the precision of a seismograph, but the end result is more abstract than ever before in my works. The object remains unrecognizable and yet the pictures show simple things like breathing or laughter.

Vertical Landscape, 2013

Pigment ink print on hardened Optiwhite glass 

Size 1760 x 430/ 745 cm

Vertical Landscape explores individuals who are sensing and placing themselves in to the outside world. As an outcome this large color abstracst becomes a concentrated narration of recognition and moment, with a profound significance of the surrounding reality. 

Destination: Residential building in Stockholm (SE)

Owner: Familje Bostäder, Stockholm (SE)

Implementation: Förstoringsateljen, Stockholm (SE)

Asymmetric

Digital color print and Diasec. 

Size :

Elevator 1: 320 x 215 cm

Elevator 2: 320 x 215 cm

Elevator 3: 320 x 215 cm

Destination: Turku Office building

Owner: Senate Properties

Implementation into the Kone elevators: Artproof

Asymmetric is a series of 3 photographs from New York. The works depict four skyscrapers. "The works tell a new kind of truth towards a truth that is not a repetition of old, familiar truths, but rather their transformation, their transformation. At this level, truth does not belong to any particular moment in time or place. It frees itself from the coordinates of time and space and forms its own regularities in the world around us. In the universe of art, photographs can never lie and never tell untruths. In an artistic environment, what is beautiful is also true. These works create a new form of expression by overlaying several images of a skyscraper with each other. The first impression resembles a transparent crystal that forms in the light kaleidoscopic pattern. The paradox begins to take shape: the figure of the skyscraper acts as a building material in the formation of new kinds of images. The result is a clash of shapes and structures, which in the artist's hands is shaped into a poetic symbiosis. New structures are created when figures intertwine, overlap, color each other and mix with each other.” (Peter Michael Hornung, 2009)