Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
Tina Gverović works with many different media, often on the theme of space, territory and identity. Her new artwork for The Plot, Surface Flows, is located on what remains of the traffic access ramp for the roll-on roll-off ferry, which for a period of forty years in the last century was the heartbeat of Folkestone, the epicentre of the town’s economy and connectedness to continental Europe.
Incised into the surface of this concrete roadway she has created images of a number of discarded items of clothing – some pairs of jeans, a dress, T-shirt s – all in very slightly varying shades of the same blue (just as the blue of denim jeans may vary subtly however much it clings to the singular concept of blue). The materiality or sensuality of the clothing is signalled by the use of heavy road-marking paint, wholly appropriate to the roadway in which these items lie. The concrete is washed by the tides, and the items of clothing remain, seemingly fragile but unmoved, somehow monumental despite our knowledge that these are the most ephemeral vestiges of the people that once wore them.
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Folkestone Triennial is the flagship project of Creative Folkestone and the largest exhibition of newly commissioned work presented in the UK. Artists are invited to use the town as their gallery, utilising public spaces to create striking new art that reflects issues affecting both the town and the wider world. Four Triennials have taken place attracting more than 440,000 visitors. Artists commissioned include Cornelia Parker, Christian Boltanski, Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Mark Wallinger, Cristina Iglesias, Richard Wilson, Andy Goldsworthy and AK Dolven.
https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk...
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Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity dedicated to transforming Folkestone through collective creative activity, making the town a better place to live, work, play and visit.
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Tina Gverović works with many different media, often on the theme of space, territory and identity. Her new artwork for The Plot, Surface Flows, is located on what remains of the traffic access ramp for the roll-on roll-off ferry, which for a period of forty years in the last century was the heartbeat of Folkestone, the epicentre of the town’s economy and connectedness to continental Europe.
Incised into the surface of this concrete roadway she has created images of a number of discarded items of clothing – some pairs of jeans, a dress, T-shirt s – all in very slightly varying shades of the same blue (just as the blue of denim jeans may vary subtly however much it clings to the singular concept of blue). The materiality or sensuality of the clothing is signalled by the use of heavy road-marking paint, wholly appropriate to the roadway in which these items lie. The concrete is washed by the tides, and the items of clothing remain, seemingly fragile but unmoved, somehow monumental despite our knowledge that these are the most ephemeral vestiges of the people that once wore them.
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Folkestone Triennial is the flagship project of Creative Folkestone and the largest exhibition of newly commissioned work presented in the UK. Artists are invited to use the town as their gallery, utilising public spaces to create striking new art that reflects issues affecting both the town and the wider world. Four Triennials have taken place attracting more than 440,000 visitors. Artists commissioned include Cornelia Parker, Christian Boltanski, Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Mark Wallinger, Cristina Iglesias, Richard Wilson, Andy Goldsworthy and AK Dolven.
https://www.creativefolkestone.org.uk...
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Creative Folkestone is a visionary arts charity dedicated to transforming Folkestone through collective creative activity, making the town a better place to live, work, play and visit.
Follow us:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativefolk...
Instagram: instagram.com/creativefstone
Twitter: twitter.com/CreativeFstone
#CreativeFolkestone #FolkestoneTriennial #Triennial21 #TinaGverovic
