My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon: Reading and conversation with Lara Khaldi and Francisca Khamis Giacoman

For this event, the collective To See the Inability to See invited Lara Khaldi, artistic director of de Appel, to engage in conversation with artist Francisca Khamis Giacoman to delve into specific narratives contained in the book. Drawing from stories featured in both the publication and the show, we aim to explore resonances with their practices and the broader themes of memory, identity, and collective experience.

Francisca Khamis Giacoman is a Chilean artist from the Palestinian diaspora, currently based in Amsterdam. Through performances, installations, and audiovisual works, Francisca Khamis Giacoman is trying to recall stories of migration and unfold them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality.

About My Garden's Boundaries Are the Horizon
To See the Inability to See — a collective that formed at de Appel’s Archive in 2019 consisting of Arefeh Riahi, Martín La Roche Contreras and Maartje Fliervoet — developed a foldable multidirectional book/object called My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon: A Porous Reader to Unguard the Garden. The publication has sculptural and performative qualities, stressing the relationship between bodies and books; provoking collectivity in writing, reading and thinking. The book/object has now unfolded into this exhibition — a repertoire of objects, gestures and events that expands its content into the space and in relation to other bodies, such as those of readers, visitors and artworks. This unfolding takes place on a flexible sculpture display that also holds a selection of works, weaving the publication, the artworks and the artefacts into an inter-related constellation of physical and spatial experiences.