In the Nave of the CCC OD, Hoël Duret presents the installation CONT#CT that follows on from his recent exhibitions and his film Drop Out (2020), a tale of anticipation against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
CONT#CT plunges us into a polyphonic immersive environment that brings together video, sculpture, painting and music through a sound creation by composer Vincent Malassis. Embedded in the same hypnotic movement, the works respond to each other and pulsate according to the incessant flow of images that saturate the space, drawing us into the heart of a virtual world that is equally seductive and disturbing.

This strange universe resounds like a distant and distorted echo of our familiar environment. Hoël Duret has indeed drawn from the infinite repertoire of videos available in the internet databases that fuel the world of communication and media en masse. As if everything had already been filmed, these productions, as uniform as they are sprawling, tend to replace reality and its representations. They draw a world parallel to the glossy beauty that today shapes the gaze and standardises the imaginary.

From this environment occupying the whole of the Nave emanates the voice of an explorer who seems lost inside the images. She comments on her journey into an inaccessible elsewhere, torn between an addictive fascination and the doubts that haunt her as she drifts away from reality.
Through this existential journey in the state of limbo of the digital world, Hoël Duret continues his investigation of the mystery of human destiny, in a world in disarray, in search of new narratives.