low, 2020
The exhibition low presented at the Villa Merkel (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany) is about chaos, parallel worlds, futuristic technologies and absurd hopes. Through a monumental installation (NFT ph<7 logique (2019)), a film (Drop out (2020)), strange luminous artifacts and glyphs left by an extinct branch of humanity, Hoël Duret investigates the relationship between nature and technology. In the particular context of the pandemic, the artist develops a critical and alternative image of the digital age as a coherent phase of human history and humorously shows that such a concept can only be affirmed by concealing the diversity and precarity of our world.
low, 2020