Remember to Forget

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
1 June - 14 October 2012

http://serpentinegallery.org/

http://thespace.org/items/e0000ens

At the Serpentine Gallery in London, they have commissioned architects over the last twelve years to design a Summer Pavilion; a temporary, functioning structure outside the Serpentine Gallery on the Kensington Garden lawns.  Very cool.

This year, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, and Ai Weiwei collaborated to create the pavilion.  They purposefully made it to be something other than an object.  They dug underground, as well as utilize space above ground for the piece.  It represents memory and past like archaeology, by digging underground.  It pays homage to past architectural structures at the site.  The top covering is positioned 1.5m above the ground so it's at eye level.  The water on the surface looks like a mirror.

The architects/artists say that the thought behind the piece concerns our relationship with memories & time & history.  They say it is at once a "Protest against forgetting" but to "Remember to forget"