Presented as part of April’s Last Fridays Folkestone event, Tomas Poblete’s ‘Who’ll be the last To Forget This Place’ is a series of expressionist paintings where folkloric magic symbols serve as an Alchemical Door through which the artist explores the fragmented memories of childhood, patriarchy, loss, and a search for gold.
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In ‘Who’ll be the last To Forget This Place’, Poblete has created visceral, emotionally charged new work where the void takes centre stage: From the desert that meets the sea in his ancestral home of Tocopilla (The Devil’s Corner) in the Antofagasta region of Chile referred to exhibition’s title, to the English channel simultaneously joining and separating the towns of Dunkirk and Folkestone where the artist produced his work, and the expressionless face created by the wearing of masks.
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Currently residing in Folkestone, Tomas Poblete is a Chilean-born multi-disciplinary artist and graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and Glasgow School of Art. ‘Who’ll be the last To Forget This Place’ forms part of a series of cross-disciplinary curatorships at HOP Project CT20, produced at La Plate-Forme and HOP Studio as part of the HOP Project CT20 exchange programme and guest curated by UK fashion designer and co-founder of Pokit, Claire Oduwole.