Compositions by Daniel Blaufuks
Foreword by Joao Pinharanda, Director, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
28 × 19.8 cm
368 pages
Hardcover with dust jacket, hot stamp foiling, round spine
English edition



"A diary is also an act of resistance." (Daniel Blaufuks)

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.

This book contains pages no. 1840 to 2206 from the year 2023.

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The Days Are Numbered by Daniel Blaufuks is published on the occasion of the artist's eponymous exhibition presented at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon from 17 July to 7 October 2024, and inaugurates the association between JBE Books and Jean-Kenta Gauthier gallery under the imprint JKG & JBE Books.

JBE & JKG Books is born from the chemistry between a publishing house and a contemporary art gallery. JBE - Jean Boîte Éditions, founded in 2011 in Paris, is a book maker for ambitious projects redefining the scope of publishing in the 21st century, collaborating with international artists and for a worldwide distribution. JKG - Jean-Kenta Gauthier, founded in 2014 in Paris, is a contemporary gallery representing international artists, with a demanding program and functioning as a platform for producing and connecting artists with their audiences and partners. Together we believe that artists' books are an essential art practice and a think tank for contemporary creation. Operating from Paris and for a global reach, JBE & JKG Books publishes artists' books.