Walk around Timo Nasseri’s ‘Parsec’ sculptures and you’ll find yourself part of the artwork within Sfeir-Semler
Gallery. These polished stainless steel pieces, shaped according to Iranian architecture (and made up of perfectly measured triangular shapes), reflect your body in a way that puts your toes above your belly; your head below your knees. And in between you find fragments of Philip Taaffe and Christine Streuli’s intoxicating artworks refracting off the surrounding walls.

The exhibition bombards the visitor with shapes and patterns in a way that enthralls even those with no appetite for geometry. This could be due to the hypnotising effect of most of the pieces. Take Christine Streuli’s ‘It’s gonna explode’, where suns become stars, which turn into balls of wool depending on how long one stares into the canvas. Or her ‘High Ceiling’, which tricks the eyes into thinking the work is of varied distances from the canvas.

There’s a play of movement in all the exhibited works, and it’s particularly evident in Philip Taaffe’s acrylic pigment on paper pieces – where budding embryos spring to life – that one witnesses the ecstasy of patterned order developing its own twist.

The repetition of lines, circles and formations is present in every piece by all three internationally renowned artists, yet there’s a move away from symmetry. It’s a demonstration of what patterns can do when left to the eye of the beholder, where a trance is what you make of it.

Untitled Works’ runs until Nov 13 at Sfeir-Semler Gallery