Francisca Khamis Giacoman

Bio

Francisca Khamis Giacoman, born into the Palestinian diaspora in Chile, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. She is invested in unearthing memories and preserving oral tradition, and tries to engage with the malleable quality of time by listening to traces of the past, understanding how it materialises the present moment. She attempts to communicate from within an experience of a fragmented existence, using humour and treating with lightness the lived experience of being in a position of unknowing.

Her work has been shown at Locarno Film Festival, Cairo Film Festival, Santiago Biennial, Abu Dhabi Art, de Appel, ExtraCity, Het Nieuwe Instituut, among others.