Rob Kulisek
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This black-and-white image depicts a figure sitting nude on a bed, holding an open umbrella. The overall composition is geometric, with the strong diagonal lines of the umbrella's ribs contrasting with the more rectilinear bed frame and room elements. The subject's pose and the props used, such as the umbrella, suggest an artistic, performative quality to the scene. The high-contrast lighting and sparse setting create a pensive, almost melancholic atmosphere. While the image may be open to various interpretations, it appears to explore themes of vulnerability, introspection, and the human form within a minimalist, conceptual framework. ...
Rob Kulisek
Rob Kulisek develops a tactile and visceral photographic practice that explores the charged intersections of bodies, desire, and representation. His imagery is instinctual and emotionally resonant, drawing from the visual vocabularies of queer aesthetics, anti-fashion, grunge, and early 2000s underground publishing. Working across photography, experimental print media, and installation, Kulisek uses the camera as a critical and poetic instrument—one that captures not only surfaces but latent psychological and cultural undercurrents. His compositions often highlight group dynamics, corporeal proximity, and the tension between intimacy and performance, producing images that are both raw and highly composed. He disrupts conventional fashion imagery by foregrounding vulnerability, eroticism, and ambiguity, pushing against sanitized or commercialized visual codes. Through carefully constructed scenes and editorial formats, his work examines the architecture of gaze, the aesthetics of subcultures, and the symbolic weight of gesture and form. Kulisek’s practice inhabits a liminal space between art and image-making, where representation becomes a site of both confrontation and release. His work invites the viewer into a realm where beauty is inseparable from discomfort, and where meaning emerges through texture, rhythm, and emotional charge. ...
Rob Kulisek: Artworks
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. ...