Jean-Pascal Flavien
Esther Schipper
The first impression one got from Jean-Pascal Flavien’s exhibition “Ballardian House” was of having entered an artificial reality that was a mirror image of our own. The large-scale ballardian four, 2015–17, for instance, with its cleanly traced forms and precise economy of space, at first appeared to be a house, but its function is more sculptural than architectural. By incorporating textual elementsshort passages from the work of the British writer J. G. Ballardinto the piece, Flavien opened up yet another space to the imagination. Put generally, Flavien paraphrased and abstracted