RTS is pleased to welcome our January resident Kerry Downey who is based in New York City.
The body is an index of experiences, full of ruptures, sensations, needs and desires. Embodiment is always an “in-relation-to” phenomenon; we are forever entangled in our environment. Figure is to ground as body is to site, to situation, and also to support. Downey’s videos, prints, and drawings explore the boundaries, possibilities and limitations of care, intimacy, and what it means to be healthy in capitalist America. Private feelings bleed unpredictably into the rug, your neighbor, and the surrounding landscape. Downey explores images, objects, places, and characters using uncertainty and desire as forms of defiance to the values of knowledge, independence, and privilege.
While in residence at RTS, Downey will be figuring out how to make drawings and DIY prints that somehow contain the feeling of the place through her body. How can color, shape, or a somatic impression tell a story about a political moment?