Manifold Books
Kraijenhoffstraat 34, 1018RL Amsterdam
Please note: the entrance is located in the corridor between number 30 and 32

Opening hours (during presentations only): Fridays and Saturdays from 5-9 pm, or make an appointment via e-mail or Instagram

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Manifold Books # 29
Si tú te vas
Francisca Khamis Giacoman
24/01/'26-21/02/'26

Opening
24/01/'26, 5-8pm
location: MAP


Dear reader,

We would like to invite you to the opening of Si tú te vas by Francisca Khamis Giacoman. Drawing inspiration from the very first film, Workers leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) by the Lumière brothers, the artist collaborated with her own brother, Andrés Khamis Giacoman, to realise the three channel video installation Si tú te vas.

This filmed portrait of a textile factory in Bethlehem evokes associations with various types of movement. While the workers have left the factory, the camera slips inside, like a ghost. Filmed as a phantom ride, the viewer floats along, from the entrance to the top floor. Fibre particles—echoes of the workers' efforts—sometimes fall and sometimes rise in the sunlight, as if time were alternately moving backwards and forwards in a constant loop. In the words of the artists: "As the title suggests, Si tú te vas—the song by Camilo Sesto, heard here in a slowed-down version—marks a suspended time. Camilo Sesto plays. The factory remains. Fibres drift without a fixed destination, and in their movement something of the labour and sound of those who were there before persists."

For this show, a small part of the beam construction of Manifold Books—a space for cultural production—has itself moved to Al-Makhrour, where it lies buried on land belonging to the Khamis family. This gesture of entrusting the object to the land, allows time and the soil itself to become its keepers. In turn the attic beam in Amsterdam is now supported by a piece of wood engendered by this land.

See you soon,
Manifold Books


NB: during Si tú te vas our opening hours will be on Fridays and Saturdays, after factory hours, from 5-9pm. 



About our current year programme Of Ghosts and Flowers
Of Ghosts and Flowers proposes a transition from our 2024 programme The Sphinx's Riddle around grief and transformation to an exhibition and event series about non-linear time experiences in 2025 and 2026. The urgency for this arose from the content of this programme, and how the system of linear time imposed on us disintegrates in the face of death, grief and profound mental and physical transformative processes. In addition, it feels urgent to formulate alternative forms of dealing with time because our system of linear time is linked to our growth-oriented economic system; the biggest driver of climate change. The embodied sensations we will look into include non-human perspectives as well as human ones. Of Ghosts and Flowers departs from the work of Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014). Si tú te vas is the fourth exhibition within this programme. During the running time of this show, Arefeh Riahi's audio piece Be My Ghost will be installed. More information on this will follow soon.

Special thanks to Dar Jacir, Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Ibrahim Handal, the Arja family, Boutros, Fabian Reichle and Ivo van Stiphout.


Sadly, we are currently unable to process any unsolicited project proposals.




~ So far, Manifold Books has organized shows/projects with: Steve Kado, Clem Edwards, Rosemary Mayer, Natalia Papaeva, Philipp Gufler/the Paul Hoecker Research Group, Dagmar Bosma, Katja Mater, Daniel Godínez-Nivón, Ana Navas, Marianna Maruyama, Nicoline van Harskamp, Selma Selman, Dan Zhu, Ada M. Patterson, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Isabelle Sully and Matt Hinkley (Unbidden Tongues), Hadassah Emmerich, Eileen Quinlan, Melissa Gordon, To See the Inability to See, Ada Van Hoorebeke, Kato Six, Riet Wijnen, Patricia Esquivias, Aglaia Konrad, Özlem Altın, Gwenneth Boelens, Barbara Neves Alves, Baha Görkem Yalım, Martín La Roche Contreras, Dongyoung Lee, Maartje Fliervoet

Each of these artists have made unique book editions, see a selection of photos



About Manifold Books
Founded in 2015 by Maartje Fliervoet in her Amsterdam studio space, Manifold Books’ activities may be best described as a spatial investigation exploring connections between art and books. With each exhibition a few titles are added to its book collection (all including artists’ interventions). Manifold Books has received funding from: the Mondriaan Fund (2019, 2023 and 2024); the AFK (2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026); het Cultuurfonds (2021-22, 2024 and 2025). This year, its programme will be supported by the AFK, Stichting Symbio, het Cultuurfonds, the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherland-America Foundation.


Manifold Books is a foundation with an independent board consisting of:
Arnisa Zeqo (chair)
Stéphanie Noach (secretary)
Paul Domela (treasurer)