Painting With Light: Video Sculptures
A participatory exhibition of video-mapped sculptures developed through a three-day workshop, turning projection into a shared method of making with objects, animation, and light.
Painting With Light: Video Sculptures was an exhibition of digitally augmented, animated, and video-mapped sculptures developed by Alex May through a three-day participatory workshop at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton in December 2014. Working with artists from a range of backgrounds, May used the workshop to open up his Painting With Light process as a shared method rather than a closed tool, allowing projected image, found structure, and sculptural arrangement to be tested collaboratively in the gallery.
What matters here is the shift from individual authorship to collective experimentation. Projection mapping becomes a way of thinking with materials, bodies, and space, not simply a final visual effect. That emphasis keeps the project close to May’s wider practice, where technology reshapes perception by altering how images sit on objects, how forms are assembled, and how temporary encounters are made visible.
Additional notes
- Workshop dates: 3 to 5 December 2014.
- Preview: 5 December 2014.
- Exhibition dates: 6 to 10 December 2014 at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
- Funded by Arts Council England and supported by the University of Hertfordshire.
- Participants included June Frickleton, Sam Hewitt, Juliet Kac, Bushra Kelsey Burge, Leyla Rodriguez, Isabelle Desjeux, Eik Leknesund Elnes, Sylvia Bernat, Karel Bata, Louis D’Aboville, and Alex May.