Francisca Khamis Giacoman (Chile, 1988) is an artist based in Amsterdam. Coming from the Palestinian diaspora in Chile, her recent works deal with fragmented diasporic memories. 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, Het 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. Along with this, she co-founded Espacio Estamos Bien, a project space based in Amsterdam that organises gatherings, publications, and exhibitions and “Museo del perro * Honden museum” the first dog museum in Europe. Francisca is currently in charge of the development of a support initiative for non-European students at the Sandberg Instituut and Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is a guest tutor at HyperWerk, Basel.

CONTACT frankhamis@gmail.com
IG @frankhamis