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The artwork presented is a minimalist black and white photograph mounted on a white frame. The composition features a prominent black circular shape against a dark background, creating a striking visual contrast. The overall style is stark and abstract, highlighting the use of negative space and the interplay of light and shadow. The distinctive technique employed suggests an exploration of the relationship between form, texture, and the camera's ability to capture the essence of a subject, rather than its literal representation. The artistic intention behind this piece likely aims to evoke a contemplative mood and invite the viewer to engage with the piece's underlying conceptual themes. ...
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. ...