Moment of Significance
A series of 30 video works captures the instant when something begins to feel important before its meaning can be understood.
Moment of Significance is a series of 30 video works built from a photogrammetric scans of weathered concrete playground animals encountered in Urgench, Uzbekistan. Created for the objkt labs Residency and developed as part of the group exhibition You Got Here Just In Time, the work captures the instant when something begins to feel important before its meaning can be understood — the disquiet and wonder of being present within an experience that is already becoming memory.
The figures appear within a reconstructed digital landscape where echoes of the same forms rise at an impossible scale, half-buried, introducing a temporal dislocation: not just a place remembered, but a future recollection already present within the scene. The work reflects May’s wider concern with how technological systems of recording reshape what persists, what distorts, and what counts as real. Photogrammetry here does not preserve, but holds open an unstable moment of recognition.
Additional notes
- Thirty individual video works.
- Created for the second objkt Labs Residency.
- Developed as part of the group exhibition You Got Here Just In Time, curated by Anika Meier.
- Released through the objkt labs Gallery on 9 July 2026.
- View Moment of Significance on objkt.
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