Bonington Vitrines #28: Gestures – Someone’s Doing Something
From: 26th September 2025 10:00 am
To: 13th December 2025 5:00 pm
Bonington Gallery
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For the 28th instalment of the Bonington Vitrines series, Bonington Gallery presents Someone’s Doing Something, a project by London based curatorial, research and archival platform Gestures.The exhibition has been developed in dialogue with writer Isabelle Bucklow.
This project, featuring artists such as Stuart Sherman, Simon Moretti, and Yvonne Rainer, will present a selection of work that explores gesture as a form of artistic expression. Whilst some gestures are recorded through notation or residue, others survive only in documentation or retelling.
The works in Someone’s Doing Something reflect a broad range of these approaches, from the formal to the informal, the scripted to the instinctive, and considers these against shifting times and contexts.
In considering the location of the Bonington Vitrines, as a space that is moved through by 100’s of people each day going about their daily business, this quote by theatre director Peter Brook is considered:
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged” – Peter Brook.
