Hurpia’s practice is rooted in the instability of the seemingly recognizable. Through invisible structures, speculative tools, fragmented histories, and divinatory rituals, he probes the liminal spaces between human perception and the imperceptible forces shaping our world. His work embraces strategies of speculation—constructing narratives and systems that unravel when confronted by empirical frameworks, revealing the friction between scientific certainty and the enigmatic unknown.

 

By reimagining instruments designed to measure natural phenomena—geophysical anomalies, landslides, sound waves, or telluric currents—he explores moments where the imperceptible breaches the surface of human awareness, often through visceral bodily encounters or environmental upheaval. These investigations interrogate the binaries that frame our understanding of reality: fact and fiction, material and myth, observation and imagination.

Hurpia’s work thrives in ambiguity, rejecting definitive conclusions to instead amplify the tension between the quantifiable and the conjectural. By destabilizing boundaries, he invites viewers to confront the fragility of their own interpretive frameworks. The pieces remain deliberately unresolved, urging active engagement with their fragmented elements and implicating the audience in the construction of meaning—a collaborative act of questioning what is known, assumed, or imagined.

 

 

 

 

Portable Dowsing Map (n/d)

This is the classic dowsing map used by dowsers. It has multiple charts overlayering each other.