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the folkestone triennial is one of the uk’s most ambitious art exhibitions.
the fifth edition of creative folkestone triennial will run from thursday 22nd july to tuesday
2nd november 2021, presenting around 20 newly commissioned site-specific arrtworks by
internationally acclaimed artists, inviting you to explore the town and its urban tales.
curated for the third time by lewis biggs, the 2020 triennal, entitled ‘the plot’ invites visitors
to consider urban myths and their relation to verifiable realities: the gap between the story and
the actuality.
the title ‘the plot’ suggests multiple meanings. conceptually a
‘plot’ can be a narrative or conspiracy; from a material point of
view, it can 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’.
