The body is the primary vehicle one has for understanding the world. I offer viewers immersive environments that heighten the senses and ways of knowing that are often private and experiential.
Downen’s art is a focused investigation of the symbiotic relationship between the human body and architecture expressed in temporal installations, drawings, and models. Her art envisions a place of interdependent relation between the human body and architecture, where the exchanging forces and tensions of construction, deterioration, and restoration emerge as thematic possibilities.