The UC-98 Sonar Souls exhibition presented at the TORRI gallery is the beginning of a fiction written and developed by Hoël Duret entitled UC-98.

UC-98 is the name of a submarine optical cable who carries our digital data. In one of the cable's knot hides a school of jellyfishes. Its presence has damaged the sheath of the cable, creating a light-data leak in the depths of the ocean. The light released pass through the soft, gelatinous and translucent bodies of the jellyfishes, feeding them with the data it carries.

This exhibition initiates this fantastic story and settles the first elements of the cosmogony. One by one, the protagonists of the fiction reveal themselves and invite to wander in this narrative in volume. The key components of the submarine landscape define the artworks presented : light transmission, fluidity and gravity.

01 & 02/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls #1 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame. 176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

03/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls #2 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame. 176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

04 & 05/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls #3 (2016)
Printed canvas, acrylic painting, aluminium frame. 176 x 120 x 3,5 cm
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

06 & 07/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls #4 (2016)
Steel, acrylic painting, plastic bac, fairy light, blue electric cable. 200 x 75 x 55 cm
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

08/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls #5 (2016)
Steel, acrylic painting, plastic bac, fairy light, yellow electric cable. 45 x 35 x 18 cm
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016

09/09 - UC-98 Sonar souls (2016)
HD video 1080p without sound. 12’
Image TORRI / Aurélien Mole, 2016 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2016