The 1973-born Israeli photo artist is an enthusiastic amateur – someone who loves the photographic image – and an autodidact who continuously educates himself through enrolling in various courses and his own prolificacy. His work has hardly been exhibited internationally; Meergus is a LUMAS discovery.

His fascination with the reflections seen in the facades of skyscrapers guides him, and one is not really certain if the results should be placed in the realm of architecture photography or fantastical realism. Either way his photographs are highly inspiring. He strikes the central question of whether objects of our observation exist, per se, that is in and of themselves, or whether nature and the built environment are purely mental constructions. His pictures are fantastic because they cause confusion. We are suddenly uncertain if the laws of the equal refraction and reflection of light are actually true. For what are these images, often skillfully fragmented into surfaces and lines? What is reflection by the sun? What are light and shadow and what is only in our own imagination?

Gennady Meergus’s raw materials are architectural products, skyscraper facades; that is true. But everything else is his own creation, forming very particular pictures in our minds depending on the time of day, mood, and vantage point, but repeatedly changing anew. And exactly this “regenerating” pictorial energy makes these pictures more than just images of architectural reality. They become the photographer’s independent creations: artistic images and a significant step toward abstract, painterly work.