Nanna Hänninen focuses on environmental issues affecting global communities, warning of a rapidly approaching future. Her photo-based work challenges our views on climate change by exploring its gradual effects on our lives. By altering her initial subject matter, she creates a personal response to shared realities, blurring the lines between the figurative and the abstract. Her work delves into themes such as memory processing, the intrinsic sense of isolation, and their interplay in shaping a collective, universal experience. Throughout her artistic career, she has consistently examined how we mentally construct space through emotions, anxieties, and external threats, investigating how memory serves as a bridge to understanding the future. Her images remain open to visual interpretation, compelling viewers to choose between the object and its symbolic reference. The fragile yet poetic dimension of her work emerges from this interplay between reality and fiction—a space where the imagery can feel like a dream or, at times, a nightmare.