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Serpentine Gallery presents its 22nd Pavilion, designed by Lina Ghotmeh
Serpentine Gallery presents its 22nd Pavilion, designed by Lina Ghotmeh
On June 9th, 2023, Serpentine Gallery’s 22nd Pavilion -designed by Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh– will be unveiled at Serpentine South
Source: Serpentine Gallery · Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2023 designed by Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Design render, exterior view © 2022 Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture, courtesy: Serpentine
This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha Hadid, has presented the first completed UK structures by some of the biggest names and emerging talents in international architecture. The Pavilion has evolved over the years as a participatory public and artistic platform for the Serpentine’s experimental, interdisciplinary, community and family programmes.
The Pavilion is titled “À table”, the French call to sit down together at a table and will allude to a sense of unity with the form of its structure and an organic design of a table as well as seating formation inviting human interactions. Inspired by nature and echoing the grounds and canopies of the trees and its surroundings, the idea of togetherness and community will take centre stage in Ghotmeh’s structural architecture.
Lina Ghotmeh, Architect said: “’À table’ is an invitation to dwell together, in the same space and around the same table. It is an encouragement to enter into a dialogue, to convene and to think about how we could reinstate and re-establish our relationship to nature and the Earth.”
“The Earth that embraces us is our first source of sustenance; without it, we living beings, could not survive. Rethinking what and how much we eat – how we ‘consume’ and how we weave our relationships to one another and the living world – moves us towards a more sustainable, eco-systemic communion with the Earth. Our ‘cuisine’ grounds us home; it reminds us how linked we are to the climates in which we grew up. As a Mediterranean woman, born and raised in Beirut, and living in Paris, I feel a deep belonging to our ground, to what it contains, and to what it embraces: from the buried yet weathering archaeologies of past civilisations to the embedded living world that spurs green life to sprout from every crack in the streets.”
