Creative Folkestone and Hastings Contemporary unveil their Waterfronts commissions for England’s Creative Coast: ‘Janus Fortress: Folkestone’ by Pilar Quinteros in Folkestone, and ‘Seawall’ by Andreas Angelidakis in Hastings.
Curated by Tamsin Dillon, Waterfronts is a series of seven site-specific art commissions along England’s South East coast that take the border between land and sea as their inspiration. The commissioned artists are Andreas Angelidakis, Mariana Castillo-Deball, Holly Hendry, Jasleen Kaur, Katrina Palmer, Pilar Quinteros and Michael Rakowitz.
Pilar Quinteros: ‘Janus Fortress: Folkestone’
A Waterfronts co-commission with Creative Folkestone
Folkestone, 29 May – 12 November 2021 (featuring in the 2021 Folkestone Triennial, ‘The Plot’)
Located on the cliff-top overlooking the town, ‘Janus Fortress: Folkestone’ is a multi-faceted work that evolves over time. The god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality and endings in ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is usually depicted with two faces. Quinteros’s sculpture likewise presents two faces, one looking inland and the...other gazing at the sea, symbolising the duality of borders — of looking outwards while protecting inwards.
Made out of a plaster composite that resembles the chalk cliffs nearby, the large sculpture is similarly susceptible to weather and to human interaction, like the eroding cliff face liable to disintegrate over time. Quinteros cedes sculptural control to her materials through her work’s built-in fragility and metamorphosis, and in this way her work suggests an acceptance of mortality and of not being able to control life. It is, she says, “a monument to uncertainty”.
‘Janus Fortress: Folkestone’ is also part of the 2021 Folkestone Triennial, ‘The Plot’, and the work will form part of a procession that ends the exhibition on the Day of the Dead, 2 November.
Explaining the ideas behind her work, Quinteros states: “For much of human history it was believed that we lived in a world of binary nature, of opposites. Working for Waterfronts and the specific location of Folkestone makes me think of that region of the country and its history being an important border, as a place of simultaneous entries and exits. It is a precise place to think about the supposedly opposites and what can be in the middle. Art, I think, opens that possibility.”
Pilar Quinteros was born in 1988, Santiago. She has exhibited her work in places such as: Kusthaus Pasquart (Biel, Switzerland, 2018), 2017 California-Pacific Triennial – Building as Ever (Newport Beach, California, USA) and 32nd São Paulo Biennial – Live Uncertainty (São Paulo, Brazil, 2016). She is also a co-founder of the MICH Collective (International Museum of Chile), a multidisciplinary group dedicated to generating reflective projects, art spaces and artistic creation.
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