Wunderkammer
A video sculpture and installation that gathers found objects, projected moving image, and temporary materials into a fractured cabinet-like environment.
Wunderkammer is a video sculpture and installation that brings together found objects, constructed forms, bread, stone, projected light, and fragments of moving image into a single unstable structure. First shown at Kinetica Art Fair in 2014, the work was built on-site and then completed through video mapping, allowing each surface to hold a different temporal layer. Rather than presenting one fixed narrative, it works as a cabinet of partial scenes in which stillness and animation remain in tension.
The work never settles into a single state. Bread, found objects, mapped light, and moving image make the installation feel as though it is being assembled and lost at the same time, with matter and projection constantly leaning on one another. That tension between accumulation and disappearance runs through May’s broader practice around memory and mediated reality.
Additional notes
- Created in 2014 and first presented at Kinetica Art Fair, London.
- Built on-site and completed using May’s Painting With Light software.
- The installation included newly made and earlier elements, allowing the work to function both as a single sculpture and as a compact exhibition.
- The structure was arranged in layers moving roughly from the Earth’s core to space.
- Materials included cardboard, light, software, found objects, bread, and a stone/video sculpture.
- Video documentation: Vimeo
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