Jean-Pascal Flavien ballardian four, 2015-2017

ballardian four creates a concrete setting, while evoking an entire fictional universe. Made of two near identical structures, posed at an angle and held by a central hinge, the work addresses a notion of doubling, coupling, and splitting. The two parts constitute separate but connected elements: while one section of the house is accessible and may accommodate a living inhabitant, its double is inhabited only by a stone. Dissolving demarcation between mental space, built structure and surrounding landscape, Jean-Pascal Flavien's house draws on the writings of J.G. Ballard whose highly charged dystopian scenarios often displace psychological and existential conditions onto buildings and landscapes. The house includes custom-made furnishings, specific to its premise, drawing both on Jean-Pascal Flavien's formal vocabulary and on a condensed Ballardian world.