ILAN DERECH

イラン・デレック

Exploring time through photography and slow cinema.

Featured Pieces
A small collection of moving triptychs.
Heart of Water 「水の心」
2024-2025
Everlasting Sakura 「永遠の桜」
2024
The Girl & The Swan 「少女と白鳥」
2024
Sacred Wind 「聖なる風」
2023-2024
White Flower 「白花」
2024
Frozen Memories 「凍った記憶」
2024-2025

ILAN DERECH

イラン・デレック

Exploring time through photography and slow cinema.

Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments into immersive experiences where stillness and motion coexist. Rooted in street and travel photography, his practice extends and reshapes time, not as something to measure, but to feel. In a culture of acceleration, his pieces invite a shift from observation to sensation.

イラン・デレフは、静止写真とスローシネマを横断しながら、時間とその知覚を探求するマルチディシプリナリー・アーティストである。彼の作品は、日常における束の間の瞬間を、静と動が共存する没入的な体験へと変容させる。 ストリートおよび旅の写真に根ざした彼の実践は、時間を測る対象としてではなく、感じ取るものとして拡張し、再構成する。加速する現代文化の中で、彼の作品は観察から感覚への移行を促す。

Selected Works
A small collection of moving triptychs.
Selected Work I
2024
Selected Work II
2023
Selected Work III
2024
Selected Work IV
2022
Selected Work V
2021
Selected Work VI
2023

ILAN DERECH

イラン・デレック

Exploring time through stillness in motion.

静けさの狭間

Moments Between Stillness

生きる記憶
"Living Memories"
移民として、私はこれまでの人生のすべてを後に残しました。 この新しい国で私と共にあったのは、カメラと記憶だけでした。 その経験を通して、儚く過ぎていく瞬間がどれほど尊いものかを深く実感するようになりました。 やがて、日本という新しい故郷に近づくにつれて、私は世界を違った眼差しで見るようになりました。 すべてがゆっくりと流れはじめ、最も小さな細部にこそ意識が向かうようになったのです。 その感覚の一部は、日本の芸術や瞑想的な実践から大きな影響を受けています。 何かシンプルで魅惑的なものを見つめたり、静かに繰り返したりしていると、やがて心が澄み、私たちはそっと「今この瞬間」へと引き戻されます。 やがて私の表現はシネマへと広がり、そうした儚い瞬間を「生きた記憶」として引き延ばすことを試みるようになりました。
Artist notes: As an immigrant, I left my entire life behind. The only things that remained with me in this new country were my cameras and my memories. That experience made me realize how precious those fleeting moments truly are. As I grew closer to Japan, my new home, I began to see the world differently. Everything seemed to slow down, and the smallest details became the focus of my attention. Part of this sensibility is deeply inspired by Japanese arts and meditative practices, the experience of observing or repeating something simple yet mesmerizing until, after some time, it clears the mind and gently brings us back to the present moment. Gradually, my practice evolved toward cinema, seeking to extend those fleeting moments into "living memories".
Living Memories息づく記憶
Featured Piece注目作品
Heart of Water 「水の心」
2024
Sacred Echoes「聖なる響き」
2023
The Girl and the Swan「少女と白鳥」
2024
Nights of Neon「ネオンの夜」
2025
Everlasting Sakura「永遠の桜」
2024
Sacred Wind「聖なる風」
2024
Exhibitions & Showcasings
Selected presentations, screenings, and installations.
Poetic Architecture
BeComing Art
Jeju Island, South Korea · 2025
A large-scale projection mapping work presented as part of Moments Between Stillness, exploring time, architecture, and immersive visual rhythm.
Tour First, La Défense
Artpoint
Paris, France · 2024
A quiet series of moving images investigating shadow, grain, and the choreography of light across urban surfaces.
Non Fungible Conference
Grida
Lisbon, Portugal · 2023
A restrained screening installation: long takes, minimal cuts, and an editorial pacing designed for an immersive, gallery-like watch.
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Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments of everyday life into immersive visual experiences where stillness and motion quietly coexist.

Emerging from a foundation in street and travel photography, his practice begins with attentive observation and extends moments beyond their passing. By stretching and reshaping time, Derech invites a slower way of seeing. In a culture defined by acceleration, his works encourage a shift from observation to sensation, where time is not measured, but felt.

Exhibitions & Showcasings

Selected presentations, screenings, and installations.

Non Fungible Conference

Grida
Lisbon, Portugal · 2023

An installation of looping studies where softness and tension coexist—micro-movements, spatial sound, and a restrained editorial palette.

Open Archive

Poetic Architecture

BeComing Art
Jeju Island, South Korea · 2025

A large-scale projection mapping work presented as part of Moments Between Stillness, exploring time, architecture, and immersive visual rhythm.

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Tour First, La Défense

Artpoint
Paris, France · 2024

After several months of renovation, the Tour First has opted for an innovative digital pathway to transform its spaces into a veritable artistic showcase and arouse new emotions in the public! Giant screens and totem displays are put at the disposal of contemporary digital creation, in times where the benefits of art's presence in the workplace are well established. Immerse yourself in an immersive digital art exhibition in the heart of La Défense!

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Collaborations

Selected interviews, features, and collaborations.

Street Photography in Tokyo

ZEISS · 2025

A collaboration with ZEISS exploring Tokyo at night through the Otus ML 1.4/35, capturing fleeting urban moments and transforming them into cinematic fragments of time.

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Interview: On Seeing & Silence

NOWNESS · 2024

A quiet conversation on process, restraint, and the choreography of light—how images become memory without announcing themselves.

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Collaborations
Selected interviews, features, and collaborations.
Street Photography in Tokyo - ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/35
ZEISS2025-2026
In Tokyo at night, Ilan Derech moves through the city guided by a single intention: to compose his story. With the ZEISS Otus ML 1.4/35, fleeting encounters become cinematic moments. Framing becomes choice. Perspective becomes narrative. Light becomes memory. Every decision shapes time. What remains in the frame. What falls away. Where one chooses to stand. Step into the night. See with intention. Compose your story.
London by night: A photographer's view of urban mobility
ZEISS2023-2024
For Ilan Derech, mobility is movement through time as much as space. Traveling alone with his camera, he observes the pulse of urban life where footsteps, transport, light, and architecture converge in fleeting alignments. Rather than simply documenting motion, he explores how it feels, how it repeats, and how it disappears. In cities like London, movement becomes atmosphere. The street unfolds as choreography, where stillness and flow coexist within the same frame.

Ilan Derech

Mexico City, 1990

Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist working between photography and cinema, whose practice explores time, perception, and the quiet poetry of everyday life. Born in Mexico and now based in Japan, his work emerges from the intersection of these two cultural landscapes, blending the observational traditions of street photography with the contemplative pacing of slow cinema. Through moving images and still photographs, Derech transforms fleeting gestures and unnoticed moments into immersive visual experiences that invite viewers to slow down and feel the passage of time.

Derech’s work draws inspiration from a range of visual and literary traditions, from the quiet narrative power of classic cinematography to the refined simplicity of Japanese aesthetics such as ukiyo-e and haiku. His approach to image-making reflects this influence: moments are carefully composed yet grounded in observation, allowing everyday scenes to unfold with a sense of rhythm and stillness. In 2020, while traveling through Asia, Derech became unexpectedly stranded in Tokyo during the COVID-19 pandemic. What began as a period of uncertainty gradually transformed into a defining moment in his practice. Walking the city with his camera each day, he began to reinterpret fleeting encounters through the structure of visual haikus. This exploration eventually evolved into Living Memories, a body of work in which each piece is carefully constructed to immerse the viewer within a moment. Through looping compositions and extended durations, the works invite the viewer to feel present within the scene, gently slowing their perception and synchronizing their mindset with the contemplative pace of the image.
イラン・デレックは、写真と映像のあいだを横断しながら制作を行うマルチディシプリナリー・アーティストである。彼の実践は、時間や知覚、そして日常のなかに潜む静かな詩情を探求することに向けられている。メキシコに生まれ、現在は日本を拠点に活動するデレックの作品は、この二つの文化的風景の交差点から生まれている。ストリートフォトグラフィーの観察的な視点と、スローシネマの瞑想的なリズムを重ね合わせながら、彼は一瞬の身振りや見過ごされがちな出来事を、時間の流れを感じさせる没入的な視覚体験へと変換していく。 彼の作品は、古典映画の静かな物語性から、日本の浮世絵や俳句に見られる簡潔で洗練された美意識に至るまで、さまざまな視覚的・文学的伝統から影響を受けている。観察を基盤としながら丁寧に構成されたイメージは、日常の風景のなかに潜むリズムや静けさを浮かび上がらせる。 2020年、アジアを旅していたデレックは、COVID-19パンデミックの影響により東京で思いがけず足止めされることとなった。その時間はやがて彼の制作における重要な転機となる。カメラを手に街を歩く日々のなかで、彼は出会う一瞬の出来事を俳句の構造になぞらえた視覚的な断片として再構成し始めた。 この探求はやがて《Living Memories|生き続ける記憶》へと発展する。そこでは、それぞれの作品が観る者をひとつの瞬間のなかへと導くよう緻密に構成されている。ループする時間と引き延ばされた持続のなかで、観る者の感覚は作品の静かなリズムに同調し、やがてその場に立ち会っているかのような感覚へと導かれていく。

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