La Dérive by Serap Gecü

The photographs in the book, titled after Guy Debord’s theory of the dérive, reflect what an eye sees when it is not fully present, focusing on witnessing those who pass by rather than fully inhabiting the moment, while caught in a Situationist drift.

The photographs in the book, titled after Guy Debord’s theory of the dérive, reflect what an eye sees when it is not fully present, focusing on witnessing those who pass by rather than fully inhabiting the moment, while caught in a Situationist drift.

Conceived as a personal retrospective, the book brings together a selection of Serap Gecü’s analogue photography series taken in different cities around the world. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s quote, “What sees is not the eye, but the landscape,” the artist looks at herself through what she sees in the photographs, which are accompanied by short sentences in French and English, written by the artist herself.

La Dérive has been presented at border_less Art Book Fair in Istanbul, Athens Art Book Fair, Vienna Art Book Fair and Index Art Book Fair in Venice. It has been featured by L’Œil de la Photographie and Paris Image Unlimited, and is held in the permanent collections of Photobook Café London.