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.

replaced by words (sink), 2017
PP plastic

The material of the work connotes an an-organic, slightly futuristic aesthetic yet at the same time the bright color gives it a playful, toy-like quality. The everyday elements in Flavien's work function to heighten the spectators’ awareness of the habitual expectations brought to public and to private spaces and to question these categorizations.

replaced by words (horizon), 2017 (on the wall outside)
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...."