SUMER ─ Óscar Monzón & Arthur Larrue

A collaborative artist’s book weaving together photography and text into a dystopian vision of a hyper-connected urban world shaped by circulation, exclusion and desire.

SUMER is an artist’s book by Spanish photographer Óscar Monzón and French writer Arthur Larrue. Bringing image and text into close dialogue, the publication combines a powerful photographic sequence by Monzón with a dystopian narrative by Larrue, set in a world-city structured by highways, logistical flows and consumer culture. Through the marginal figures of Óscar and Gabrielle, the book explores themes of exclusion, control and desire.

At the intersection of photography, fiction and contemporary social critique, SUMER creates an immersive reading experience in which visual rhythm and literary voice remain in tension with one another. As one passage suggests, “By travelling at breakneck speed, moving from one static point to another through a vehicular parenthesis, reality had somehow slipped away for the Sumerians. They could only see it through a window or on a screen.”

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Title: SUMER
Artist: Óscar Monzón, Arthur Larrue
Publisher: RVB Books, 2026
Format: Softcover
Size: 216 × 135 mm
Pages: 204
Language: French / English
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 978-2-492175-64-0