The artwork features a striking and visceral visual narrative. The composition is dominated by vibrant shades of red and orange, creating a sense of intensity and unrest. The central figure, a nude human form, is situated in a distressed and vulnerable posture, evoking themes of violence, anguish, and societal unrest. The gestural brushstrokes and the rough, textured surface of the work suggest an expressionistic style, conveying a raw and emotive quality. This piece appears to be a commentary on the human condition, addressing issues of conflict, oppression, and the struggle for social justice. ...
Infusing queer politics with transgressive aesthetics, Bruce LaBruce crafts films, photographs, and performances that blur the lines between pornography and art, activism and provocation. His practice navigates the intersection of queer identity, subcultural aesthetics, and radical politics, often merging explicit imagery with cinematic and literary references to critique mainstream cultural norms. LaBruce’s films blend camp, satire, and melodrama with explicit content, drawing from punk, horror, and avant-garde traditions to challenge moral and aesthetic boundaries. He stages narratives around marginal figures—skinheads, anarchists, sex workers, and zombies—to complicate notions of deviance, power, and intimacy. Photography and zine-making form integral parts of his visual language, offering raw, often confrontational imagery that critiques homonormativity and commodified queer visibility. Across mediums, his work engages with the politics of the body, exploring how sex, identity, and ideology are constructed, performed, and resisted. LaBruce’s practice embraces contradiction—romantic and violent, erotic and grotesque—as a mode of critical reflection and cultural disruption. Through provocative forms and subversive content, he opens space for alternative modes of being, desiring, and imagining queer futures. ...
Conditions began as Bonny Poon in 2017, Paris. Located on the 26th floor of a brutalist residential tower in the 13e, the gallery was co-founded by Nathaniel Monjaret (Marbriers 4, Geneva) and artist Bonny Poon.
Since 2023, the gallery is known as Conditions and is based out of Toronto’s Chinatown, while operating internationally. From the outset, Bonny Poon has striven to highlight the conditions that make art—from its production to sale—possible.
Beyond the art on display, we foreground the history of our artists' attitudes, positions, and networks. We have presented the Parisian and Canadian debut of many intergenerational artists and cultural figures, emerging and established.
As a gallery and an auto-fiction, we support transgressive artists and critical experiments. We mine the backstage, backroom working relations that unfold between our artists, clients, critics, and dealers—a parade of economic reality, a lasting dream of community. ...
