Lecture by Daniel Blaufuks: THE ARCHIVING OF MEMORY
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On Memory and the Archive — A Lecture by Daniel Blaufuks “THE ARCHIVING OF MEMORY”
On Sunday, September 7, Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza will host a special lecture by Portuguese artist Daniel Blaufuks. The event is open to all and free of charge (no reservation required). We warmly invite you to join us. Publications by the artist will also be available for purchase at the venue.
Working primarily with photography and video, while also presenting books and installations, Daniel Blaufuks has long explored the relationship between the public and the private.
He continues to work actively, presenting projects around the world. At the Portugal Pavilion of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, his original work JAPANESE JOURNALS will be on view for a limited period starting Thursday, September 11. In this lecture, Blaufuks will also speak about JAPANESE JOURNALS in connection with the overarching theme of memory and the archive.
Lecture Details
◆ Date & Time: Sunday, September 7, 2025, 13:30–15:30
◆ Venue: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza
◆ Address: Ginsho Bldg. 6F, 4-9-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo [map]
◆ Admission: Free (no reservation required)
◆ English Only
◆ Supported by Embaixada de Portugal no Japão / Instituto Camões
Daniel Blaufuks has worked on the relationship between public and private memory, a constant theme of inquiry in his work as a visual artist, pursued chiefly through photography and video and presented in installations, books and films.
In 2007, he published Sob Céus Estranhos (Tinta-da-china) – based on his film Under Strange Skies from 2002 – which earned him the award for best photography book of the year in the international category at PhotoEspaña. He was also awarded a prize in 2007 for his work about a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, additionally presented in the book Terezín (Steidl, 2010)and the film As If (2014). In 2016, he won the AICA/MC/Millennium BCP Visual Arts Award for the exhibitions Attempting Exhaustion and Léxico. More recently, he has published Não Pai (Tinta-da-china, 2019) and Lisboa Clichê (Tinta-da-china, 2021). He has a PhD from the University of Wales, for which he wrote his thesis on the relationship of photography and cinema to the work of W.G. Sebald and Georges Perec and to the themes of memory and the Holocaust.
His films – “expanded photographs” –have been shown at various film festivals and his latest works examine the resistance to German occupation in Brittany and colonialism in São Tomé and Príncipe, as well as continuing his ongoing non-diary The Days Are Numbered.