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Ilkka Halso

Rollercoaster, 2004
From the series Museum of Nature
50 x 67 cm

archival pigment print, diasec

With his series Museum of Nature (2000), Ilkka Halso created a variety of visuals that explore ambiguous dystopic futures in which nature has vanished due to the reckless exploitations of humanity. These works seek to raise awareness for the irreversible environmental changes that derive from our own actions. The playfulness of the sceneries, such as in Rollercoaster (2004) or Theatre I (2003), hits the viewer with its ironic undertone. Depleted nature appears either as a precious legacy that needs to be put under strict supervision and kept alive at all costs, or as being used purely for entertainment purposes.

Ilkka Halso

Theatre I, 2003
From the series Museum of Nature
50 x 77 cm

archival pigment print, diasec

Depleted nature appears either as a precious legacy that needs to be put under strict supervision and kept alive at all costs, or as being used purely for entertainment purposes. Critical, yet prophetic, the images remind us of early science-fiction, in which nature does not exist anymore. Combining landscape photographs with computer-generated 3D models, Halso uses digital processes to create scenes that convey a pessimistic, highly artificial atmosphere, revealing nature to be a limited resource that can be exploited to the point of no return.

Nanna Hänninen

Standing Tall in Sunrise #1, 2025
From the series Painted Desert
56 x 84 cm, diptych
archival pigment print, paint

In her series Painted Desert, Hänninen travels through Joshua Tree National Park, Monument Valley, and Saguaro National Park in Arizona, deliberately choosing locations most affected by drought. Through her documentation of these natural surroundings, she reflects on our relationship with landscape and nature.

Nanna Hänninen

Family of Saguaros #2, Arizona, 2025
From the series Painted Desert
55 x 42 cm
archival pigment print, paint

Nanna Hänninen focuses on environmental issues affecting global communities, specifically on global warming. Her painterly interventions breathe life and color back into the drought-stricken deserts, restoring what has been lost and symbolizing the fragility of these endangered environments as human presence encroaches upon them.

Sandra Kantanen

Meadow 06, 2023

from the series Meadows

138 x 183 cm

pigment print

The Meadows series teeters between photography and painting, with scenes of atmospheric natural spaces digitally manipulated with drips, splashes, and strokes of pixelated pigment. This series encapsulates the springtime bloom of wildflowers in rural, disused spaces now untouched by human hands, the multitude of indigenous and wild plant species filling the entirety of the shot.