Daye Allan is a Moray School of Art graduate who collects the personal possessions offered up by his subjects to create biographical assemblages of the body and beyond.
Daye investigates people as time capsules, showcasing the eclectic layering of experiences and memories that form our identities. Inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Daye’s bricolage self-portrait substitutes the artist’s body for the recycled matter of his life in an exploration of the extended self.
Radiating from the self-portrait, Daye tells an expanded story of ‘interbeing’, breathing new life into a selection of archival photographs of people who made him who he is today. Painted at a small scale to evoke the intimacy of the personal photograph, these are portals to another time. With each new painted memory in this ongoing body of work, he reveals another glimpse into an ever-growing web of colliding stories.
Step closer and notice the detail as these lives flash before your eyes.
