The artist Tracey Emin presents one of the items in her latest work, a trail of baby clothes on Folkestone seafront that she hopes will highlight the number of teenage pregnancies in the town.

Emin has cast seven bronze objects around the Kent resort, including a jacket hanging from a railing, a teddy bear under a bench and a baby's sock next to a kerb. The items were then painted to resemble the original. Twenty-two artists have been commissioned to create works for the first Folkestone Triennial, including Mark Wallinger, the winner of last year's Turner Prize, and the American artist Pae White.

Emin said that her childhood in nearby Margate had influenced her choice of work. “There was a lot of teenage mothers. The girls who had their babies young were treated as if they were stupid but actually they were sometimes the most intelligent girls,” she said. “There is something very forlorn about baby clothes being left behind. You cannot just disregard them, they represent an innocence, something to be captured.”

Ruth Herron, of the Kent Teenage Pregnancy Partnership, said: “It's interesting that Tracey has decided to showcase this piece of work. Anything which raises the profile of the work that needs to be done to reduce teenage conception is welcomed.”

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