Mr/Mrs K was solo performance, installation, and looping sound work created between 2018–2019. The project draws on the Jewish myth of the golem—an artificial being brought to life from clay—and its symbolic link to creation, memory, and resurrection. Within Dan Allon’s ongoing series Ghost and Golem, the “ghost” represents absence and memory, while the “golem” represents the human urge to reanimate the past.

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The work continues Allon’s exploration of family history, migration, and storytelling. While earlier chapters focused on his grandparents’ lives in Europe, this iteration investigates two relatives who escaped the Holocaust and settled in São Paulo. Blending archival research with fiction, Allon imagines one uncle as Mr./Mrs. K, a queer artist in 1960s–70s São Paulo who sends idealized drawings of their life to family in Israel. Through performance and drawing, Allon transforms fragmented history into a poetic act of remembrance and reinvention.

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Exhibited at:
Sabra Festival, Brazil x Israel: Museu Guido Viaro, Curitiba, Brazil. Curator: Marina Ramos
The group exhibition Fronteiras Indigestas, Contemporão Project Space, São Paulo, Brazil. Curator: Yiftah Peled.
Photos: Guilherme Negrão.
Fresh Paint, Expo Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator: Raz Shapira Fainburg.
Photos: Dor Kedmi and Lilach Raz.
The group exhibition Displacement at Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Sharon Horodi.

Special thanks to:
Eduardo Cardoso Amato, Sabra Festival, Museu Guido Viaro, Tal Alperstein, Tal Rosen, Elaine Peled, Maira Vaz Valente

Thanks to: Mariana Zanetti

The Jewish Museum of São Paulo (Museu Judaico) and the team of the Centro de Memória do Museu Judaico (Pinheiros)