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Kerry Downey makes videos, installations, prints, and books that illuminate correspondences between private emotion and political consciousness. |
Kerry Downey makes videos, installations, prints, and books that illuminate correspondences between private emotion and political consciousness. Her work explores bodies and sites, while resisting delivering facts or claims of knowledge. Archives, systems, and narrators present irrecoverable experiences and unreliable memories. Her work can be thought of in relation to Georges Bataille, who saw entropy, waste, failure‚ the nonproductive expenditure of effort and desire‚as forms of resistance and agency, a defiance of the values of property and conformity.
