
The Days Are Numbered
- Publisher
- JBE Books / Tinta da China / MAAT
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-2-36568-094-3
- Specifications
- 28 x 19.8 cm
368 pages
Hardcover with jacket, hot foil stamping, rounded spine
Foreword by João Pinharanda
English
Published for the exhibition at MAAT, Lisbon
Every day, on a sheet of paper, Blaufuks makes a composition out of his instant pictures, found images, documents and words in the languages he speaks — English, Portuguese, German, French — and stamps it with a number.
The whole is something like an imprecise daily notebook; he calls it a non-diary, standing between individual and collective memory. Fed by a run of states of mind, showing the eternal return of things, seasons, places and facts, it works against our programmed amnesia. This volume holds sheets 1840 to 2206, from the year 2023.
“A diary is also an act of resistance.” — Daniel Blaufuks