Sanna Nissinen

Bird's eye view, 2025

Compared to many other urban animals, pigeons are particularly well adapted to this new, sleek world, whose ecosystems are made of concrete. They mate, eat, defecate, live, and die on our streets and in the shelters of our buildings. Our worlds overlap when we pass each other at the market, just like passers-by do. Each determinedly making their way to their own destination, hardly paying attention to each other. But above the rooftops there is another city that does not belong to humans; a world seen from a different perspective.

Sanna Nissinen is a visual artist from Leppävirta who has also studied animal care and worked as a substitute. She is particularly interested in our complex relationships with other species and our shared cultural history, which defines us as a species more than we often realize. In her Master's thesis in fine arts, she examined the relationship between humans (Homo sapiens) and domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica).