Shower curtain, metal rod, camp bed, soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, velcro (inside the house)
Made of two near identical structures, posed at an angle and apparently held by a central hinge, Ballardian House 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.
entangled chairs, 2017
Metal
Nestled together, the two chairs are forever connected, connoting both intimacy and commitment. Jean-Pascal Flavien's altered domestic objects draw attention to the way in which design and architecture shape our experience of space but also how they can more fundamentally determine our experience of ourselves and of others.
replaced by words (horizon), 2017 (on the wall)
Soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, wood
The work evokes a concrete phenomenon (the horizon line), the notion of landscape, and a fictional location. The words (taken from J. G. Ballard's texts) are in place of the missing phenomenon: "...I tried to leave by this last door of the horizon the same queasy perspectives would unravel in front of me...."