“Urbainable/Stadthaltig” at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin comes with optical walls and floors occupied in the middle by a a cyberpunk totem:, a pillar of screens, cables and multimedia players. The exhibition is an all-Italian take on contemporary issues, curated by HPO collective, featuring Marco Venturi, Guido Guidi and Ground Action.

In this abstractly domestic environment, visitors are invited to move around the space and interact in real time with the seven screens hanging from the pillar at different heights and orientations. The chessboards designed in the screen reproduce portions of suburban scenarios by the well-known Italian photographer and landscape artist Guido Guidi, while the vertical stripes are replaced by outdoor views filmed by three webcams.

The walls and floor of the room fade away and disappear returning the viewer to those spaces of intersection and encounter that today's isolation prevents.

The installation highlights the new points of contact between virtual and real that the pandemic has modified, showing, by this new limit, a material on which designers are called to reflect on nowadays.