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9/2/2005

Timo Nasseri

Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris

'jet skin'

Born and brought up in Berlin as the son of a German mother and an Iranian father, Timo Nasseri's photographic work is not so much preoccupied with the serialisation and pure documentation of the depicted subject, but with the process of thoughts and events that - invisible to the viewer - form the context of the individual images. Without direct criticism, his work deals with socio-political aspects of our times.
By showing only a fragment of the subject he is documenting, he leaves the viewer the necessary space to reconstruct the images according to his personal experiences.

Timo Nasseri's latest work 'JET-SKIN' show parts of the outer surface of fighter aircrafts. The abstract beauty of these 'autonomous fragments' make it difficult to imagine the actual function of these machines: their lethal power is hidden behind their clean, aesthetically pleasing and almost painterly skin. The contrast between the seductive structure of the surface and their brutal inner life creates a tension that makes the viewer feel uneasy about this misleading beauty and makes him question their real purpose.

Making a comment about modern warfare, Nasseri way of presenting the fighter jets show similarities to the coverage of the bombardment of Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years. In these wars the latest weapon technologies was presented to the public on TV, stressing their technical perfection, while at the same time depicting only fragmented, abstract imagery of the attacks, trying to distance the audience from the real consequences of these weapons's use.

private view_thursday_10th february_from 6.30pm to 9pm

contact: Andreas Lange +33 1 42 77 02 77

Galerie Schleicher+Lange
12, rue De Picardie 75003 Paris / France

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