What a Mess is a collaborative project initially developed by Pedro Gil Farias and Hugo Pilate during the ‘Realities in Transition’ residency at V2_ Lab for Unstable Media exploring the untapped narrative potential of the urban fabric, and its place in the digital representation of cities.

Together with different participants we hosted multiple photogrammetry walkshops and set out to digitally sample 3D parts of the neighborhoods visited in relation to different urban issues (hostile architecture, porosity in the city, street art, etc.).

Each set of captures (or specimens) were then contracted into aggregates, semi-living phygital entities, that invite the viewer to decrypt what might be the narrative potential behind each aggregate.

The work has been exhibited at V2_, WIP Festival in Cyprus and in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

These are archived in the website:

archive.whatamess.city