This black and white photographic artwork features a man playing the piano juxtaposed with a score sheet. The visual elements emphasize the contrast between the human performer and the musical notation, creating a striking composition. The subject matter captures the essence of musical expression, with the man's focused gestures and the intricate score highlighting the creative process. The artistic style blends portraiture and documentation, reflecting the artist's intention to showcase the interplay between the musician and their craft. This work provides a compelling glimpse into the world of classical music performance and composition. ...
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. ...
