Asymmetric Exposures is about Nanna Hänninen’s  admiration of the skyscraper ́s as well as understanding of the fragilty of those and common peace agreements in the society. The incident in New York on 9/11 is still influencing her work and this that can be seen in all her works through 2000-2009 either with direct research of it or by denial. Nanna Hänninen is not only documenting the world as it is but also she is transforming the truth. “Nanna Hänninen incorporates her own emotions and ideas about the Twin Towers attack in her interpretation of this milestone in modern history. The skyscraper thus becomes an image of the fragility of our civilisation and its fundamental lack of stability.” (1)She is stretching out the way of seeing and viewing things while having joy of playing with the exposure, time and light itself- the basic fundaments of photography. Nanna Hänninen also sees a reference to patterns and ornaments used in islamic art where "figurative" pictures are not allowed. Asymmetric Exposures brought Hänninen also to geometrical forms like the Platonic solids and especially the fifth- dodecahedron, which she saw through her newest photographs and as result of this she then for the first time made 3 dimensional objects containing photographs in the form of dodecahedron.

Text by Peter Michael Hornung, 2009