Afterwardness

Whitstable Biennale returned for its 10th, and final, edition from Saturday 11 June to Sunday 19 June 2022. 

The festival borrowed its title from Mimi Khalvati’s evocative poem, Afterwardness. Through the eyes of ‘an eleven year old boy from Aleppo’ the poem explores loss, trauma and the concept of ‘afterwardness’, a term originally coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the belated understanding of events that comes with the passing of time.

Continuing the festival’s tradition of programming some of the most exciting and experimental visual art being made in the UK today, Whitstable Biennale 2022 wove film, performance and sound into the fabric of the town, and create direct, and often intimate, opportunities for local people and visitors to engage with contemporary art and artists.

Participating artists included: 

Abigail Mitchell, Aimée Zito Lema, Alicia Radage, Anna Barham, Anna-Maria Nabirye, Arianne Churchman, Ben Judd, Chromatic Agency (nnull & Sandy Rompotiyoke), Dan Guthrie, Dipesh Pandya, Dzifa Benson, Grewal Twins, Jade Montserrat, Jennet Thomas, Junior Roberts & Ollie Barron, Katrin Albrecht, Kiran Kaur Brar, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Lucie Rachel & Chrissie Hyde, Madeleine Ruggi, Marcus Liversedge & Karen Morash, Mimi Khalvati, Neta Miriam Perez, Nicole Bachmann, Olivia Furber with Nour Sokhon & Ramzi Maqdisi, Patrick Flannery Walker, Ruth Waters, Sarah Craske, Savinder Bual, Sonya Dyer, Webb-Ellis, and more.