Extensions, 2017, Timo Nasseri

Extensions is an exploration of form, movement, and sound—a continuation of Nasseri’sTimo’s fascination with mathematics, geometry, and the infinite. Animated drawings from the 2017 series O Time Thy Pyramids unfold in a dynamic visual language, where shapes expand, contract, and dissolve in an endless cycle of transformation. Accompanying these shifting geometries is a “pulsar symphony,” a collage of cosmic frequencies recorded by NASA. 

 

Nasseri’s work exists at the intersection of reason and intuition, structure and improvisation. In his sculptures and drawings, he traces the echoes of Islamic ornamentation and Western mathematical abstraction. Extensions takes this inquiry further, liberating fixed geometries into perpetual motion. Forms inspired by muqarnas, tessellations, and mathematical systems shift and reform, no longer bound by static structure. The static and dynamic merge in a visual symphony, echoing the cosmic principle of perpetual flux.

 

One of Timo’s key inspirations is Jorge Luis Borges, whose labyrinthine narratives explore infinity, existence, and the tension between the legible and the unknowable. Extensions acts as a recursive, immersive space, where patterns continuously evolve, eluding final comprehension. The pulsar symphony amplifies this sensation, stretching time into something elastic and fluid, much like Borges’ portrayal of time as an infinite web of possibilities. The video moves between what is seen and what is hidden, resonating with the Sufi concept of Zahir and Batin—the apparent and the concealed—echoing Borges’ fascination with the limits of perception and the mysteries that lie just beyond human grasp.

About Timo Nasseri

Timo Nasseri (b. 1972, Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He received his diploma in photography from the Lette-Verein, Berlin in 1997. Nasseri explores themes such as geometry, mathematics, architecture, calligraphy, and, most recently, camouflage. Combining Islamic and Western cultural heritage, his work is inspired as much by specific memories and religious references as by universal archetypes described by mathematics and language, and the inner truths of form and rhythm. His practice is one that tackles the subject of infinity and that aims to solve puzzles, whether they are historical mysteries or the explorations via mathematical theorems to discover an overarching order in the chaos of existence.