Adelaide Theriault

Instagram: adelaidejo

Website: http://adelaidejo.com

Bio: Adelaide Theriault is a multidisciplinary artist working through site-specific sensory inquiry to nurture a practice of ecological research and intimacy. Adelaide is from north Texas, where they received a BFA from the University of North Texas in 2020. They are currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture and Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico. Adelaide has exhibited work regionally across the Southwest, including at the University of New Mexico Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe as a 2022-2023 SITE Scholar.

Statement: Adelaide’s practice stems from an interest in the ecologies that exist beyond the ranges of human sensory spectra, and from a desire to regularly molt and regrow perceptual habits. This research often takes shape through play with scale—repositioning themselves within the context of the lives and movement of the beyond-human parts of their respective ecological circuits. Adelaide is often immersed in the feral ecologies of medians, transition zones and in-betweens. Here, they work with installation, sound and environmental sensors to illuminate the place-making intelligence of more-than-human cohabitants within the context and wake of global capitalism. Their attention is currently held in the sonic-ecological impacts of highway and rail infrastructure in the Blackland Prairie ecoregion of Texas.