280 × 198 mm, hardcover, 368 pages
English edition


The Days Are Numbered is published on the occasion of Daniel Blaufuks' eponymous exhibition, presented at MAAT, from 17 July until 7 October 2024.

Since spring 2018, Daniel Blaufuks (b. 1963) has been creating each day a meticulous composition of instant photographs and text on an A4 sheet of paper, before stamping a number on the front and writing the date on the back. Some days, he adds documents or objects. Entitled The Days Are Numbered, this vast project is like an imprecise diary recording events from the author's life, reflections on the world, literature and photography. Behind the melancholy punctuated by bouts of joy, anger, wonder and indignation, Daniel Blaufuks nurtures hope: by numbering each day, he counts the days that have passed and creates a kind of inverted countdown to his life.

At the MAAT, Daniel Blaufuks presents his 2023 diary, selected entries from the past five years, and the first few months of 2024. This collection includes over 450 works: photographs, collages, clippings, and personal notes featuring brief stories, quotes, and comments. While parts of his non-diary have been shown in France multiple times, this exhibition marks its first full-year presentation in Portugal. This book contains pages no. 1840 to 2206 from the year 2023.


The Days Are Numbered inaugurates a collaboration between Jean-Kenta Gauthier gallery and JBE Books under the banner JBE & JKG Books. JBE & JKG Books is the association of a publishing house and a gallery. JBE is a book maker of and for the 21st century, JKG represents contemporary artists and operates as a platform for producing and connecting. Together we believe that artists? books are an essential practice. We publish ambitious books by international artists for a global audience. JBE & JKG Books operates from Paris, for everywhere.