Over the years, Daniel Blaufuks (b. 1963, lives in Lisbon, Portugal) has engaged in a daily exercise of poetry, introspection, meditation. Each day, on a sheet of paper, he meticulously creates a composition combining his instant photographs, found images, documents and words in the languages he speaks (English, Portuguese, German, French), before stamping it with a number. Entitled The Days Are Numbered, this vast project resembles an imprecise daily notebook - Blaufuks refers to it as a “non-diary” - at the intersection between individual and collective memory. Nourished by a succession of states of mind, manifesting the eternal return of things, seasons, places or facts, The Days Are Numbered challenges our programmed amnesia.
  “A diary is also an act of resistance.” — Daniel Blaufuks
This book inaugurates a collaboration between Jean-Kenta Gauthier gallery and JBE Books under the banner JKG×JBE BooksCompositions by Daniel Blaufuks, Foreword by João Pinharanda
28 × 19,8 cm, 368 pages, Hardcover + jacket, hot stamp foiling, round spine
Published at the occasion of the MAAT exhibition (Lisboa)
jbe-books.com     'Join us at Librairie 7L for an evening of engaging conversation and a special book signing with Daniel Blaufuks to celebrate his latest publication, The Days Are Numbered. Blaufuks will be joined by Duncan Forbes, director of photography at the V&A in London and curator and art critic Béatrice Gross, who will participate in a conversation to delve into the themes of Blaufuks' thought-provoking work, which explores the passage of time, history, and memory through his unique photographic perspective.'
 
📍Librairie 7L
7, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Saturday, November 9, 2024,