In 2019, Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank. Their correspondence, rooted in shared memories and layered histories, explores how water shapes Palestinian landscapes, experiences, and diasporic connections. The first four letters have traced a path across Bariloche, Santiago, Amsterdam, and Palestine—interweaving memory, geography, and resistance. This week, we share the final two letters in their epistolary exchange.
Letters 5 and 6 were shared just over a year ago, in March and April 2024. They take the form of two video-archives: one composed of footage from their first recorded encounter, and the other of moving images from Palestine. These final contributions speak across time and space, refusing the linearity of conclusion. Instead, they offer fragments—gestures, landscapes, absences—that echo the earlier themes of the exchange while shifting the form of the correspondence itself.
Throughout the six letters, Maia and Francisca map connections between water, fruits, memory, and resistance—composing a collective archive that is at once deeply personal and historically resonant.
We warmly invite you to watch Letters 5 and 6, and to (re)discover the full epistolary exchange.
Read the letters on plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
Throughout the six letters, Maia and Francisca map connections between water, fruits, memory, and resistance—composing a collective archive that is at once deeply personal and historically resonant.
We warmly invite you to watch Letters 5 and 6, and to (re)discover the full epistolary exchange.
Read the letters on plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
In 2019, Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank. Their correspondence, rooted in shared memories and layered histories, continues to explore how water shapes Palestinian landscapes, experiences, and diasporic connections. The first two letters were published last autumn. We now invite you to read letters 3 and 4.
Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank in 2019. Francisca was conducting a residency in Birzeit, and Maia was traveling to film scenes for her documentary "Viento del Este" (2023). They have committed to exchanging letters to engage in a dialogue about various memories related to water in the occupied territory of Palestine.
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Art & Spatial Praxis
Art & Spatial Praxis
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Plot(ting)
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