Dorothy Cross, Baby Pillow (Greek Marble), 2025 | Frieze Masters 2025

Dorothy Cross is among the 18 artists chosen to participate in the sixth edition of Folkestone Triennial. From large-scale sculpture and sound installation to digital works and community collaborations, the 2025 commissions explore the layers of land and life beneath our feet. 

The 2025 edition features new commissions by:

Céline Condorelli, Monster Chetwynd, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Cooking Sections, Dorothy Cross, John Gerrard, J Maizlish Mole, Rubiane Maia, Emeka Ogboh, Prabhakar Pachpute, Katie Paterson, Laure Prouvost, Emilija Škarnulytė, Rae-Yen Song, Jennifer Tee, Sara Trillo, Hanna Tuulikki and Sarah Wood.

Dorothy Cross, in partnership with University College Cork (UCC), is delighted to announce her project Kinship, which centres on the return of an Egyptian sarcophagus containing the mummified body of a man, which arrived in Ireland in 1914. It was given to University College Cork where it has been stored for over a century. Cross has worked alongside UCC for nearly three years, to secure the return of the mummy and sarcophagus to the Museum of Egyptology in Cairo.

Kinship is the ritualized journey of the mummy back to Egypt – his place of origin. The carrying of the body home is an act of return, almost an act of nature. It is a journey of respect, heavily symbolic and relevant today when millions of people on the planet are displaced and homeless. Like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier the body represents all of us. Not just the return, Kinship incorporated the ripples of documentation that come from this historic event, taking the form of a feature length documentary, a visual art book and a large audio element. Hymns and ballads to life and death resonated across the project as the sarcophagus journeyed home.

Kinship followed on from Cross’ 2019 work, Heartship, both made in partnership with Mary Hickson andSounds from A Safe Harbour Festival.