Folkestone Triennial

Curated for the third time by Lewis Biggs, the 2020 Triennial, entitled The Plot, invites visitors to consider urban myths and their relation to verifiable realities: the gap between the story and the actuality.

The Plot uses three historic Folkestone narratives as a point of departure: St Eanswythe’s watercourse; the physician William Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the blood; and Folkestone’s industrial road ‘The Milky Way’. Referring to passages of movement - the movement of water, blood and goods - the exhibition presents artworks in public spaces across the town, along the various routes associated with these stories. 

The title suggests multiple meanings. Conceptually, a ‘plot’ can be a narrative or conspiracy; from a material point of view, it can also mean a plot of land, or to plot a course or graph – things that are mathematically verifiable. Observing the gap between personally verified experience and what is otherwise told or narrated, the Triennial urges viewers to consider the voids left behind by ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truths’.

More info: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/folkestone-triennial

Image: Pilar Quinteros, Janus Fortress Folkestone, Co-commissioned for Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 and England’s Creative Coast Waterfronts with Turner Contemporary