Loaded (2025) is a solo exhibition by Dan Allon at The Lobby – Place for Art. Inspired by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger’s concept of the Ancestor Syndrome, the project traces invisible familial patterns of trauma, fear, and secrets transmitted across generations. Allon examines how historical events—his maternal great-grandfather murdered by Nazis, his mother’s wartime and personal traumas, and his father’s snake-bite incident in Morocco—intersect with contemporary experiences, including terror attacks in Israel and his own fatherhood.

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The installation combines ink drawings, two sound works, and clinic-inspired furniture, creating a quasi-archival space. Drawings map branching family narratives across time and geography, blending fact and fiction to reveal recurring traumas. Visitors encounter questionnaires, family histories, and layered stories, showing how collective and personal memory, inherited fear, and bodily responses converge.

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Curator: Orit Mor

Photos: Daniel Danich 

Graphic design: Roei Regev 

Tech and installing: Ido Gordon 

Thanks: Anna Betshtansky, Lior Grady, Roee Rosen, Oded Rechavi, Thalia Hoffman, 

Special thanks: Einat Shahak, Shimon and Miriyam Allon 

The Lobby – Place for Art
December 2025