(2021)
This project was held during the Resilience Residence Programme in Serra da Mantiqueira (Brazil), supported by Serrapilheira (BR), Pro Helvetia South America (CH) and Swissnex (CH).
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deep time | 2021
video still
HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color
This project is an invitation for a shift in the perception of our surroundings, a change of perspective concerning non-human beings (or more-than-human) and so-called 'inanimate' things. Geological time operates on a time scale different from human perceptual capacity. Even the most accurate mechanisms for calculating the age of rocks, through Radiometric Dating, have an “error” margin of one million years. This is something that is far from our biological perception of life.
With the use of technological devices within my reach - within technical limitations -, I had the intention of speculating an “other” dimension of things; As when placing side by side a representation of the sound spectrum of the beating of a hummingbird's wings captured in field work, I contrast it with the slow motion video showing the projection of sunlight reflected in the running water of a river on a rock - indicating a slow weathering process on the surface of that mineral.
Deep time | 2021
video still
HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color
“[…] The mediating instruments, operating as gateways to the world of the other – the umwelt of the other – can take on different shapes. Among the most popular ones in our culture are those that cut through reality by committing to measurement, classification, and hierarchization. Those contraptions and what they allow us to see, hear, and get to know are characters in the images of Pedro Hurpia, who, among the mediators described here, builds a kind of meta-mediation. Hurpia highlights the tensions and limits that the utopia of an unmediated reality presents to us as a society, ultimately, as a species.”
Excerpt from the curatorial text by Ícaro Ferraz Vidal Junior, for Resilience Residence Catalog 4th Edition – Art and Science.
Measuring things | 2021
Creative process
Angle ruler and gloves
Variable dimensions
During the residency, varied procedures and exercises of measurement and positioning in front of the 'other' were carried out, in order to distort the original function of the instrument used and bringing a poetic bias to the movement or action.
deep time | 2021
Installation detail
Igneous rock, dust, acrylic and thermal blanket
Variable dimensions
deep time | 2021
video stills
HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color
The fictional narrative “Tempo Profundo” was shot in two distinct places, in the Environmental Protection Area of Serrinha do Alambari and on the Itatiaia National Park’s plateau. The construction of the script took place from elements and situations that provided a unique dimension of the time and space relationship of inanimate beings and objects within their contexts. The choice of birds as active characters, for example, was due to speculation that these beings would be the “eyes” of the mountain, given the seasonal presence of human beings in the natural park.
weathering n.1 | 2021
Light on rocks
Variable dimensions
weatherings | 2021
Inkjet print on paper
Variable dimensions
deep time | 2021
Installation view
Drawing, wood, inkjet print on paper
and stepped titanium drill
Variable dimensions
Rules for Everything | 2021
Installation view
Ruler, igneous rock and stepped titanium drill
Variable dimensions
deep time | 2021
Installation view
Drawing, wood, inkjet print on paper
and stepped titanium drill
Variable dimensions
deep time | 2021
video still
HD | 16:9 | 10'42" | stereo | color
fractures | 2021
Print screen | creative process
Bird sound edited for the final video.
Resilience Catalogue - artist in residence / art and science 2021
ISBN 978-85-54112-01-1
Resilience - artist in residence / art and science 2021
fieldwork with the group in Itatiaia National Park