Serpentine hosts Cartographies of Remembering, a day of live panel discussions that brings Arpita Singh’s exhibition Remembering into dialogue with A Capsule in Time, the 2025 Pavilion designed by architect Marina Tabassum.
A Capsule in Time, Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Pavilion, is grounded in the vernacular architecture of Bengal and designed with deep responsiveness to light, air and temporality. As Tabassum describes: “In the Bengal delta, architecture is ephemeral as dwellings change locations with the rivers shifting courses. Architecture becomes memories of the lived spaces continued through tales. The Serpentine Pavilion offers a unique platform under the summer sun to unite as people rich in diversity. The stage is set, the seats are placed”. In dialogue with Singh’s visual language, the Pavilion invites reflection, shelter and attention.
Through panels and musical interventions, Cartographies of Remembering invites listening, wandering, participation and discovery. Like the Pavilion’s design, the day resists closure – proposing a field of experience where memory stretches, spirals, and lingers as a living archive.
With Osman Ahmed, Sutapa Biswas, Puer Deorum, Mohammed Z. Rahman, Arinjoy Sen, Devika Singh, Himali Singh Soin, South Asia Archive, and music curated by Nabihah Iqbal.
Through its ongoing library programme, South Asia Archive facilitates temporary installations that function as both social nexus and open access research. These installations encourage audiences to engage with printed matter and reflect on the integral role of libraries and material culture in creative practice. For this edition of South Asia Archive’s library programme, collaborating artists are invited to activate the archive with contributions from their own personal collections.
With books contributed by Osman Ahmed, Jawara Alleyne, Rajan Bijlani, Issey Brunner, Isabella Burley, Dal Chodha, Tasnim Chowdhury, Climax Books, Kalpesh Lathigra, Manu Pillai, Mohammad Tariq, and Tenderbooks.