discussing photography
may 2010
central week
17–22 may
»Perecs Büro« is a work by Daniel Blaufuks created specially for the Kunstverein Ruhr and includes photography and video.
It is based not only on the writing of the French writer Georges Perec, but also on his early biography, as a child who has lost his parents during the war. The work subtly deals with the connection between private and public memory and our relation to landscape and language. These layers of constant information are part of our personal archive, that obviously includes also trauma and selective memory.
The title of »Perecs Büro« tries to establish a verbal link between the apparent seriousness of an office/archive and the infinite contents of a writer's mind, that is nevertheless influenced by his own circumstances and memory (loss).
Daniel Blaufuks uses mainly photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and films. He has a predilection for issues such as the connection between time and space and the representation of private and public memory. His own biography as a descendant of a German Jewish family, who came to Portugal during the war, has been one of the causes for his constant interest in these subjects.
Kurator: Sérgio Mah.
Daniel Blaufuks, Perec’s Büro, 2010
