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Francisca Khamis Giacoman

Francisca Khamis Giacoman

Description

Francisca Khamis Giacoman (Chile, 1988) is an artist based in Amsterdam. In performances and installations, she recollects stories of migration and unfolds them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. Her video and sound works use family archives to focus on the solidification of in-between identities. Khamis Giacoman has exhibited her works at various places including Biblioteka in London, ExtraCiy in Antwerp, Rozenstraat in Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Kunstverein in Amsterdam, PuntWG in Amsterdam, Stroom in Den Haag and Gold+Beton, Cologne. She was recently an artist in residence at BAU in Amsterdam.

RFID-tag

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, archive

RFID tag for objects 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

Troll#3 – Un jugete de plastico, un troll occidental, 2024

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

Un jugete de plastico, un troll occidental. Suelo tajerlos y usarlos como totem magico en proyectos de arte. Este in especial lo encontrĂ© ?eldra se? “POOS” ?esterba alvera? y estuba esperando usarlo para algo important y tiene una buena energia isualdes cen les artistes

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

St. Christopher Medal

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

It belonged to my grandmother, and has travelled from Portugal to Mozambique, to South Africa and finally The Netherlands.

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

casa de barro / clay house, 2020

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

This house I made during the pandemic. [illegible] my home back in the [illegible] it is an object that holds home. [illegible] ceramics the burial objects, this one needed to become one. I want this object to be a companion for friend Francisca <3
Material: clay


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

Pimiento de Árbol de Canelo, 2022

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

Árbol de Canelo is a sacred medical tree for the Mapuche. The people who are ancestial to now so called Chile, the territory were khamis family exiled and now we. This is a mutual recognition of fights for land.
Material: glass, seeds of Canelo tree, paper


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