The artwork depicts a close-up, black and white photograph of a hand wearing a set of metal rings or bracelets. The image showcases the intricate and geometric patterns created by the intertwined metal pieces, which contrast with the rough texture of the skin. The stark monochrome palette and the abstract, sculptural quality of the composition suggest an exploration of the human form and its relationship with decorative objects. The artist's intention may be to challenge traditional perceptions of the body and to highlight the artistic potential inherent in everyday, mundane details. ...
Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick create meticulously staged photographic and video works that explore how objects function as carriers of meaning within systems of design, symbolism, and cultural production. Their collaborative practice centers on constructing hyper-real still lifes and spatial compositions using found, fabricated, or repurposed items—ranging from therapeutic instruments to industrial tools—carefully arranged to evoke layered psychological and ideological narratives. Rather than treating photography as a documentary tool, they use it as a conceptual framework to examine how aesthetics shape perception and value. Each composition is carefully lit and composed, turning mundane or utilitarian objects into charged icons that suggest anxiety, aspiration, and coded belief systems. Their installations operate as speculative environments in which objects are both familiar and estranged, inviting viewers to decode how form, material, and context influence interpretation. Through visual precision and conceptual rigor, Bell and Frick investigate the politics of display, the semiotics of consumerism, and the architecture of desire. Their work ultimately reveals how visual culture constructs meaning—challenging the boundaries between image and artifact, function and fiction, reality and simulation. ...
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. ...
