Exhibit — The Endless Pavilion

The three built museums of Le Corbusier relate directly to their conception as Endless Museums, than to their immediate contexts. This becomes the point of departure for a speculative exhibit that seeks to rejuvenate these sites and revive interest in their collective histories and projective futures. The Endless Pavilion is an itinerant exhibition for an itinerant and fictional pavilion that will be transported across the three museum sites and reassembled each time in an endless process of building and unbuilding, thereby creating new communities of artists, artisans, curators and builders through novel forms of display and performance.

All three built museums of Le Corbusier are remarkably similar and are all derived from the Endless Museum projects that preceded them. They are all square introverted plans, elevated boxes on piloti, accessed first through the center, where a ramp turns into a pinwheel - the pinwheel being the formative core of the nascent double spiral that was to be built endlessly. All have ‘no façade’ since their growth is ‘anticipated’. Yet, even as they were built, there was no brief, program or vision in place for these buildings to grow over time - their endlessness was aborted even before they were built. The blank facades and protruding beams became motifs, in the anticipation of a growth which never came. Six decades and more after they were built the three museums of Le Corbusier have become precisely the very static containers he some vehemently criticized - their collections staid and in the case of Sanskar Kendra, it’s very future remains threatened by the pressures of the neoliberal real-estate market.