Viewer’s Blue (Small) Climate is a large blue wooden construction created on a human scale, whose four  corners are topped by four boxes shaped like portholes. For the past two years, Jean-Pascal Flavien has been working on several versions of this work, one of which was installed outdoors in Brazil. In developing these living spaces, which are equipped with an audio system that broadcasts and records different natural sounds, Flavien appropriates formal  elements from the vocabulary of American Minimalism; at the same time, the walls are hung with a corpus of figurative drawings that are filled with tropical vegetation and antediluvian animals. Playing on the oppositions between a primitive world and an avant-garde aesthetic, Flavien reflects on geological time and historical time. His project, which bespeaks an awareness of its own simultaneously chaotic and anachronistic character, attempts to juxapose two perceptions, or familiar representations, of the concept of “origin” – a primeval image, and an image formed in the context of avantgarde utopias.