Feel at Home but Don’t Forget It’s My Home (2016) is a solo exhibition by Dan Allon at Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv. Installed inside a former telecommunications building, the exhibition transforms the space into a heterotopic, partly autobiographical archive composed of three room-scale installations and a performance setting.

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Each environment blends personal memory, fiction, and everyday materials. The first room combines a large communication board, graffiti, a trash bin filled with archival documents, Moroccan music, and a carpet—referencing Allon’s family background and a recent residency in Morocco. The second room presents clotheslines hung with documents, photographs, and drawings, forming a fragmented biography infused with humor and gender critique. The third room centers on a personal letter to the artist’s father, surrounded by homoerotic wall paintings and a short sound work. In the final space, Allon occasionally sits in silence watching a Moroccan soccer match, turning banal routines into performative reflections on home, identity, and memory.

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Curator: Sharon Toval
Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv
November–December 2016

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Credits: 

Gabirol gallery director: Lia Tzigler 
Special thanks: Shimon Allon, Eran Inbar, Avner Pinchover, Karni Barzilai, Anna Bershtansky 
Photos: Goni Riskin ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​