Dan Allon 
Contemporary Art

 

 

 

 

 

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Artist Statement 

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I am a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of storytelling, performance, and visual art. My practice is rooted in narrative: personal, political, and imagined. I begin like a writer — through research, journaling, and textual development — and evolve the work into visual forms such as graphic novels, installations, drawings, concerts, or performance.

I draw on autobiographical material — my medical files, military and financial documents, family stories — and weave them with fictional or historical narratives. In this tension between fact and fabrication, I explore the fragility of truth. My projects often inhabit a documentary/ mockumentary space, questioning how memory, identity, and fiction co-author one another.

Humor, vulnerability, and grotesque imagery are central to my tone. I’ve performed as both “artist” and “subject,” sometimes living inside a gallery space as a silent character, or building stories that claim my grandmother had an affair with Franco, or that my aunt was a transgender singer in Brazil. These fictional memories are told with the same documentary conviction as real ones.
My goal is to unsettle — to ask: *Is this real? Could it be? And if not, why does it still feel true?*