Maartje Fliervoet
- Member of
- To See the Inability to See, Manifold Books
Description
Maartje Fliervoet (b. 1973) is a visual artist and the initiator of Manifold Books, founded in 2015. Working with photography, printmaking, installation, textile, language and printed matter and her practice evolves around an interest in formlessness and in making space for the undefined as a way of thinking.
My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon – Exhibition booklet, archive
USB stick, 2025
interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)
this USB stick contains screenshots from a Mine-test construction made by my son. He built 2 appartments under a glass dome. The appartments and the dome appeared to him in a dream. We are trying to meet in our dreams when we are apart. One of the appartments is for my son and me and the other for him and his father. We found out that we both dream of homes so we try to focus on this before going to sleep. This technique was taught to us by Daniel Godínez-Nivón. It helps to overcome the distance between us and the longing for eachother.
Materials: Plastic, metal
Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E
Manifold Books' attic beam fragment
interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)
130 year old pine wood
For her show Si t ú te vas at Manifold Books, Francisca Khamis Giacoman proposed to replace a piece of our beam construction with a piece of wood
from an olive tree at Al Makhrour on the West Bank in Palestine. The wood was taken from a branch of a very old tree standing on the land of her grandmother, that is threatened by colonists while it still belongs to Francisca's family. The wood from the beam is now buried on this land as part of her interr ā re project, both wooden pieces functioning like different kinds of support structures. Francisca choose to cut the beam at eyesight, so that the newly
added support receives maximum visibility once you enter our space. However, precisely at this spot Manifold Books' founder Maartje Fliervoet's son, Lorenz Birkholz, had once written his name. After consulting with him, it was decided that this gesture is now part of interrāre and part of the archive extension.