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.

01/27 - MORNING SUN (2023), exhibition view
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

02/27 - Deflect #8 (2023)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher
180 x 120 x 2,5 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

03/27 - Deflect #8 (2023)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher
180 x 120 x 2,5 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

04/27 - Deflect #7 (2023)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher
180 x 120 x 2,5 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

05/27 - Dark waters #1 (2022), detail
Silicone, 43’’ flatscreen, HD 1080p video without sound 16’
Approx 40 x 100 x 250 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

06/27 - Dark waters #1 (2022), detail
Silicone, 43’’ flatscreen, HD 1080p video without sound 16’
Approx 40 x 100 x 250 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

07/27 - Deflect #3 (2022) et Deflect #4 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic boards, sound amplifiers, electrical cables
180 x 120 x 16 cm each
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

08/27 - Deflect #3 (2022) et Deflect #4 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic boards, sound amplifiers, electrical cables
180 x 120 x 16 cm each
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

09/27 - Deflect #2 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic board, sound amplifier, electrical cable
180 x 120 x 16 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

10/27 - Deflect #2 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic board, sound amplifier, electrical cable
180 x 120 x 16 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

11/27 - Deflect #1 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic board, sound amplifier, electrical cable
180 x 120 x 16 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

12/27 - Deflect #1 (2022)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher, loudspeaker, electronic board, sound amplifier, electrical cable
180 x 120 x 16 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

13/27 - Outta Luck (2022), video excerpt
4K video with sound, 13’47’’
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

14/27 - Outta Luck (2022), video excerpt
4K video with sound, 13’47’’
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

15/27 - Outta Luck (2022), video excerpt
4K video with sound, 13’47’’
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

16/27 - Les trucs que nous « 💭 » (2023)
Adhesive lettering and wall stickers
180 x 400 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

17/27 - Quantum (2020)
Brass structure, black PMMA, plants, blown glass, polished steel, electronic board, LED controller, fiber optic, amplifier, speaker, various materials
300 x 100 x 100 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

18/27 - MORNING SUN (2023), exhibition view
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

19/27 - hings went South (2023), video excerpt
4K video with sound, 13’57’’
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

20/27 - Things went South (2023), video excerpt
4K video with sound, 13’57’’
© Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

21/27 - Deflect #9 (2023)
Varnish on mirror pvc canvas, aluminum stretcher
180 x 120 x 2,5 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

22/27 - Dark waters #2 (2022)
Silicone, 43’’ flatscreen, HD 1080p video without sound 16’
Approx 40 x 120 x 100 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

23/27 - ✨(2022)
LED strip, nylon tube, metal bases.
Approx. 800 x 200 x 200 cm
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

24/27 - MORNING SUN (2023), exhibition view
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

25/27 - FOX (2023), exhibition view
Flexible mannequin, steel and wood stool, leather shoes, cotton pants and shirt, PLA printing, 3D holographic propeller, video media, electric cable, LED projector, computer program, soundtrack, loudspeakers.
Variable dimensions
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

26/27 - FOX (2023), detail
Flexible mannequin, steel and wood stool, leather shoes, cotton pants and shirt, PLA printing, 3D holographic propeller, video media, electric cable, LED projector, computer program, soundtrack, loudspeakers.
Variable dimensions
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023

27/27 - FOX (2023), detail
Flexible mannequin, steel and wood stool, leather shoes, cotton pants and shirt, PLA printing, 3D holographic propeller, video media, electric cable, LED projector, computer program, soundtrack, loudspeakers.
Variable dimensions
Image MABA / Aurélien Mole, 2023 © Hoël Duret / ADAGP, Paris, 2023