On the 23rd of April during Stockholm Art Week, Beau Travail & Cues has collaboratively organized a film screening by the Toronto based artist, gallerist and filmmaker Bonny Poon that will take place at Cues.
Both Beau Travail and Cues are an artist-run galleries showing multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists.
5:45 pm Doors open at Cues
6-7 pm Screening: Belle Balance
7-8 pm Intermission (bar open)
8-9.15 pm Screening: I am Alpha
9:30 Q&A with the artist, gallerist and filmmaker Bonny Poon.
Tickets 50 SEK per film, paid at the door. Capacity is limited and RSVP is essential. Reserve your seat at info@cues.cx. Address and additional information will follow after confirmation.
Bonny Poon is an artist working across film, exhibition-making, and performance. Her practice explores how access, circulation, relationships, and visibility can be reorganized within the art ecosystem, across alternative subcultures and nightlife, and on the human and economic body. Her work has been presented at venues including the ICA (London); Club Raum (Amsterdam); Chisenhale Gallery (London); MMK (Frankfurt); Portikus (Frankfurt); Queer Thoughts (New York); New Jerseyy (Basel); Marbriers 4 (Geneva); Liste Art Fair (Basel). She is the director of Bonny Poon / Conditions (Paris, Toronto) and the owner and head coach of Flow, a gym.
Bonny Poon's Beautiful Balance (2016) and I Am Alpha: The Dark Sequel (2025) draw from the eponymous gallery's circle of collaborators andfriends: a shifting constellation of art-world insiders moving between Frankfurt, Paris, and New York. Playing transposed Hollywood narratives, the films straddle camp ad-libs and documentary footage. Behind a fragile economic reality—the commercial gallery—they risk devolving entirely into an unflinching behind-the-scenes snapshot of a chaotic, intimate social milieu.
Directed, shot, and edited by Poon on various phones and a Sony HDcam—with no film crew, no script, and no budget—the diptych unfolds through raw proximity and favours. It reveals the gallery as a relational body: formed through mutuality and reciprocity, but equally through fraught negotiations, love, and the delicate debts that bind people together.
Films from the diptych have screened at Against Interpretation Club at Raum, Amsterdam (2025); Cinéma L'Archipel, Paris (2025); ChrisAndrews, Montreal (2024); Bonny Poon/Conditions, Toronto (2023); Maladie d'Amour, Grenoble (2017); Suicidal Oil Piglet, Melbourne (2017); ICA , London (2017), and Queer Thoughts, New York (2017)