Painting With Light in Caracas, Venezuela
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Painting With Light was presented in Caracas at the Museum of Contemporary Art, extending Alex May's live video-mapping practice into a new international context.
Painting With Light was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Venezuela on 27 September 2013. The project brought May’s live video-mapping approach into an international exhibition context, using projected moving image, built form, and custom software to create an environment that shifted continuously between installation, sculpture, and light-based performance.
What matters in this body of work is the way ordinary structures become unstable under projection. Light does not simply decorate the surface. It redefines how the object is read, turning temporary arrangements into something spatial, rhythmic, and difficult to fix in a single image. That instability gives the work its tension, holding material presence and digital transformation together at the same time.
Shown in Caracas, the project extended May’s wider concern with how technical systems change perception and alter the status of what is seen. Rather than using projection as spectacle, Painting With Light asks how quickly a familiar object can become uncertain once image, space, and duration begin to overlap.