Overview
- Swinton performed a one-hour, site-specific work titled "House of gestures" at the Guggenheim Bilbao as part of Dom Pérignon’s Révélations 2026 program.
- Tickets for the two performances sold out quickly, underscoring strong public demand for limited, high-profile live events.
- Swinton developed and performed the piece with longtime collaborator Olivier Saillard after conversations with Vincent Chaperon, Dom Pérignon’s chef de cave.
- She framed the work around patience and stillness, likening the live, shared experience of the piece to the temporal and sensory qualities of fine champagne.
- The event joins a busy summer slate at the Guggenheim Bilbao, which is also showing a Jasper Johns exhibition and completing seasonal maintenance on Jeff Koons’s outdoor sculpture, while reinforcing Dom Pérignon’s decade-long strategy of commissioning cultural projects.