Disapper

by Allana Clarke

Coming Soon!

Presented by CulturalDC
On view May 10 – June 29, 2025, Saturdays & Sundays, 12–5 PM

Opening Celebration, Friday May 9, 2025 6-8PM

Artist Talk, Saturday May 10th, 2025 10:30AM-12PM

Stable Arts | 336 Randolph Pl NE, Washington, DC

CulturalDC is proud to present Disappear, a new solo exhibition by Allana Clarke, created during her time as CulturalDC’s 2024 Capital Artist Resident.

Disappear is a striking photographic and text-based installation that centers the Black femme body as a site of transformation, tension, and reclamation. Rooted in Clarke’s personal experiences living with uterine fibroids and navigating the U.S. healthcare system, the exhibition explores the intimate connection between illness, identity, and bodily autonomy.

Through contorted self-portraiture and fragmentary poetic text, Disappear gives visual form to the physical and emotional complexity of chronic illness. The work challenges systems of invisibility, offering a bold and unflinching reclamation of space, narrative, and healing.

Allana Clarke is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, performance, video, and installation. Her work investigates power, identity, and the histories embedded within the body and language. Clarke’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent presentations at the Gagosian Gallery, and exhibitions in Germany and the Netherlands.

She served as CulturalDC’s 2024 Capital Artist Resident, a program that provides artists with housing, studio space, and resources to develop new work in Washington, DC. Disappear was conceived and created during her residency and marks the culmination of her time in the city.