In this series, the artist creates an analogy between Talbot, one of the fathers of photography, and the sun, which may be described as the “father” of the solar system. In the absence of this great father figure, the moon – which does not radiate its own light, and only reflects the light of the sun – creates a mysterious and magical world of its own. Night thus comes to appear not simply as the negative image of day, or as the shadow of an absent original, but as the creator of an entirely different set of rules, which blur the rigid borderlines delineated by daylight.

Gershuni collected and catalogued anonymous images from the Internet, which he then superimposed upon one another to create these works. Each of these photographs features four moons, which he describes himself as “stealing” from different sources “like a thief in the night.” The multiple positions of the four moons in each one of these works alludes to the simultaneous existence of different temporal registers and locations, creating a unique world that is devoid of familiar temporal and spatial rules.

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