amy feneck’s work is concerned with the use and interpretation of urban space. recent projects have focused upon how different social groups appropriate and re-map their immediate environment, bringing up discourses on the social and physical structures and hierarchies of a given site.

for her installation in the lees lift amy will be investigating the mythologisation of the british coastline, using the unique interior of the leas lift as a space in which to reflect upon the notion of the british costal landscape as a constructed space.

during the weekend of the 26th and 27th of july, amy is transforming one of the lift carriages into a moving camera obscura, creating a reversed motion picture of the folkestone seascape.

using the carriage as an enlarged pin-hole camera, amy will be making photographic exposures of the flipped horizon in an attempt to record this constructed landscape as a true experience.

alongside the camera obscura, a limited edition poster will be available to pick up in the waiting room of the leas lift, displaying an image and accompanying text that further explores aspects of human intervention within the natural landscape.

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