archival pigment print, folio, red ribbonConditions
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The image depicts a musical score, specifically a section from the 12th variation of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations." The composition features a complex, intricate melody with a rhythmic, staccato-like accompaniment, creating a sense of forward momentum. The overall visual impression is one of precision and technical mastery, reflecting Bach's renowned skill as a composer. This work, composed in the early 18th century, stands as a testament to the composer's enduring influence and the timeless beauty of classical music. ...
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. ...
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. ...
