MORNING SUN, 2023
For this exhibition at the MABA art center, a selection of artworks from the corpus LOW, started in 2019, meets, enters in dialogue and sheds light on new productions, bringing the viewer always further into an enticing and ambiguous world.
Through LOW and the narrative and formal paths it opens, Hoël Duret outlines the shape of a parallel world. In this new story specifically written for the MABA, you will recognize some protagonists of his past interventions: a fox, a jellyfish, night owls, light sculptures, and blurred mirrors… However, their message remains as absurd and cryptic as before, despite their (new) apparent willingness to tell us something. The beginning of a resolution might emerge at the end of the exhibition.
Combining pop aesthetics and science fiction, Hoël Duret uses a wide range of media going from video to sculpture, installation, performance, and painting. Resorting to digital tools and their already fallen utopia, he is less interested in their exponential performances than in their narrative and esthetic potential. In the era of the Anthropocene and technological acceleration, Hoël Duret explores the motivations of contemporary men in search of bearings . While the future has already insinuated itself into the present, and we are losing our grounding, the artist observes the weak signals of a time that is getting more indecipherable despite the development of tools meant to shed light on it. With a quirky take on things, Hoël Duret draws on the capacity of high-tech tools to distillate fiction everywhere and foster new ways of living. Through this existential journey into the limbs of the digital, the artist continues his investigation of the mystery of human destiny in a drifting world searching for new narratives.
MORNING SUN, 2023