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Folkestone Triennial highlights

Folkestone Triennial
The Triennial is part of a regeneration project which includes an £800m refurbishment of the harbour and seafront. Folkestone has become marginalised in recent years as a result of developments like the Channel Tunnel Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Nils Norman, Gavin Wade and Simon and Tom Bloor present Kiosk 5: Kite Kiosk, a copy of a modernist kiosk designed by Berthold Lubetkin for Dudley Zoo. Kites are being distributed, decorated with words relating to the regeneration project Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Tracey Emin brings her Baby Things to Folkestone. Baby Things takes the form of a trail of seemingly lost items. The pieces are cast in bronze but painted so accurately as to be idly mistaken for the real thing Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
The piece was intended as a comment on Folkestone's high rate of teenage pregnancy, but some have found the items oddly cheering Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Emin grew up in a seaside town herself, Margate. Each of the items is an exact cast of the original, and the sculptures lead a poignant trail around the town Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens by 2007 Turner nominee Nathan Coley. The letters are attached to an aluminium frame and are illuminated at night Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Pae White's offering takes the form of Barking Rocks. She has converted a dilapidated dog park into a playground for Folkestone's many dogs and their owners Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Sculptures of severed cats' heads sit atop poles and the area has been planted with jasmine, lavender and rosemary to give the dogs something to sniff Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Entangled by Ayse Erkmen. In what she calls 'a jealousy project', Istanbul-born Erkmen has recreated the ivy from one of Folkestone's several Martello towers on another, better preserved, tower further down the shore Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Mark Wallinger's Folk Stones comprises 19,240 numbered stones and is a tribute to the men who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The piece is placed near the street which soldiers walked down on their way to the boats that took them to France and Flanders Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Disco Mecanique by David Batchelor is made of thousands of pairs of cheap sunglasses made in Brazil. Like a mirror-ball, they rotate slowly and silently Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
Folkestone Triennial
Robert Kusmirowksi has recreated elements of an old fish market from detritus found in the harbour. The work is only fully visible at low tide Photograph: David Levene/Guardian
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