Sanna Kannisto's 'A Song System' at Metronom, Modena

Sanna Kannisto, a Finnish visual explorer born in Hämeenlinna in 1974, presents her exhibition 'A Song System' at Metronom in Modena. Kannisto travels globally with a portable field studio that includes a white box set up with flowers, plants, and artificial elements to attract animals. She photographs small birds, butterflies, and bats, as well as a video on hummingbirds, then releases them. The resulting images are minimalist, with white or black backgrounds, evoking suspension and disbelief. The title references the 'song system' shared by songbirds, where vocal communication is learned, not innate, involving listening to one's own voice and imitating others.