Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien explores how architecture influences relationships and behaviors by designing and constructing living spaces, inviting people to interact in them, and subsequently documenting the experiences through book publishing, video, drawing, installation, and sculpture. For each of his temporary habitations, the artist sets up parameters, usually dictated by architectural layout and custom-made furniture, which force occupants to invent new gestures, movements, activities. For
casa para 2
(2010) in São Paulo, Flavien invited two people to live for several weeks in a cube structure he built and divided in half by color. Person A was assigned the red side of the house with red furniture, while Person B was assigned the blue side with blue furniture. The structure was filled with cubes of varying sizes in each color which prompted discourse, exchange, and play. For his project
breathing house, la maison respire
(2012) at Parc Saint Léger in France, Flavien constructed a house next to a gallery so that visitors could move in between the two spaces. Inside the house, he erected two movable partitions segmenting the activities that take place within it: living / sleeping / working. By questioning what it means to work in a sleep space or breakfast …
Jean-Pascal Flavien explores how architecture influences relationships and behaviors by designing and constructing living spaces, inviting people to interact in them, and subsequently documenting the experiences through book publishing, video, drawing, installation, and sculpture. For each of his temporary habitations, the artist sets up parameters, usually dictated by architectural layout and custom-made furniture, which force occupants to invent new gestures, movements, activities. For
casa para 2
(2010) in São Paulo, Flavien invited two people to live for several weeks in a cube structure he built and divided in half by color. Person A was assigned the red side of the house with red furniture, while Person B was assigned the blue side with blue furniture. The structure was filled with cubes of varying sizes in each color which prompted discourse, exchange, and play. For his project
breathing house, la maison respire
(2012) at Parc Saint Léger in France, Flavien constructed a house next to a gallery so that visitors could move in between the two spaces. Inside the house, he erected two movable partitions segmenting the activities that take place within it: living / sleeping / working. By questioning what it means to work in a sleep space or breakfast in an exhibition space, this work, and his practice in general, proposes new models for inhabiting space.
Solo exhibitions of Flavien’s work have been presented at Parc Saint Léger in Pougues-les-Eaux, Kunstverein Langenhagen, and South London Gallery in London. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at various institutions including Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse, Musac in Leon, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Kunsthaus Bregenz and Tate Modern.
