Nanna Hänninen - Fear and security

Fear and Security tells about the fear of losing control. When photographing more objects, instead of order, she started to see the idea of chaos in things. That became a series of pictures called Fear and Security. Hänninen says that “There is a great paradox because by setting up security measures you cause insecurity of something”. In these images Hänninen has been trying to catch the idea of the society, which is filing, sorting and systemizing things to be more secure and organized. “Her work titles- Fear and Security, Keep Under Control, Information Failure- reinforce the idea that these stage-set-like, micro-theatrical scenes are visualized thought, visual aphorisms, emblematic abstractions. In a model-like manner they represent thoughts about the world, about tensions, opposition, overload, sources of error.” [2] Psychological and mental mechanisms of the society as well as the 9/11 incident in New York are the starting point of the series. The theme is still very current. Aesthetically these works are very simple and silent, even minimalistic.