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In 2021 Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam presented Francisca Khamis’s performance As Close As I Get as part of the exhibition Temporary house of Home. AVOIDSTREET was invited to design Khamis Giacoman's outfit.
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Description
Coming from the Palestinian diaspora in Chile, Khamis Giacoman explores memories as traces of silenced narratives. She records and reconstructs stories of a house that lives on as a ghost in her family’s oral tradition. As Close As I Get documents a failed visit to the house, still standing in Al-Makhrour in Palestine, but inaccessible to her family. A video merges Khamis Giacoman´s own journey to the house with the memories told by her great-aunt Labibe. To regain access and keep the memory of the house alive, Khamis Giacoman traces its floorplan in a series of activations. A set of steps reconstructs a part of the house and invites the visitors to rest.
Credits
Photography: Carmen Gray
Performance by Francisca Khamis