At a time when other museums are building new wings, we are building a new image; our extension will be through programming in concentric circles: the Serpentine, the park, the world. The gallery offers a very specific experience, because it’s a world within a world – a lofty space, which you walk to through the park. The change of momentum from slow to fast, and from noisy to as silent as a chapel is important; it works especially well for monographic exhibitions.’
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interview
Really love this quotation from a Time Out interview with Obrist of the Serpentine.
The Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park is one of my favorite spaces in London - but I’d never considered it the way Obrist depicts it above…. the idea of concentric circles is one that I love - overlapping and related worlds.
It’s a world I want my life to take shape in.