On the 23rd of April during Stockholm Art Week, Beau Travail & Cues will collaboratively host a film screening by Toronto-based artist, gallerist and filmmaker Bonny Poon at Cues.
Both Beau Travail and Cues are artist-run galleries showing multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists.
5.45 pm Doors open at Cues
6-7 pm Screening: Beautiful Balance
7-8 pm Intermission
8-9.15 pm Screening: I Am Alpha
9.30 pm Q&A with artists Aron Skoog, Marie Karlberg, and 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 and performance. Her practice explores desire and communality through the making and breaking of rules, roles, and borders within the agrarian Anthropocene—closely trailing the art world, legal bodies, subcultural scenes, and nightlife. Since 2017, she has directed the gallery Bonny Poon/Conditions (Paris, Toronto)—a self-cannibalizing artwork and myth. Her work and happenings have been staged at venues including the ICA (London), Chisenhale Gallery (London), Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Portikus (Frankfurt), Queer Thoughts (New York), Club RAUM (Amsterdam), New Jerseyy (Basel), Marbriers 4 (Geneva), and Liste Art Fair (Basel).
Bonny Poon's Beautiful Balance (2016) and I Am Alpha: The Dark Sequel (2025) draw from the eponymous gallery's circle of collaborators and friends: 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 by Good or Trash, Paris (2025); Chris Andrews, 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).