Herzog & de Meuron, Archéologie de l’Imaginaire
Just Waste In this exhibition, all of our models and experiments with materials have been carefully numbered, labeled, and displayed on tables: we are exhibiting an archive, that is, a physical accumulation of the documents that we have produced in order to initiate and accelerate mental processes or, on the contrary, to arrest and propel them in another direction. They bear mute and lifeless witness to the considerable energy that we as a group, in varying combinations, have invested over the years in order to set such intellectual processes in motion. In some cases buildings have actually emerged as a result. These archived objects are therefore nothing but waste products. Since the immaterial, mental processes of understanding, learning, and developing always have priority. We have never been interested in producing objects invested with an aura in the nature of an artwork. These objects are not works of art; they are an accumulation of waste.
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