Aubrey Theobald

Aubrey Theobald (b.1996., Ohio) is an interdisciplinary installation artist based between Berlin, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio. Her work engages everyday materials and objects in sensorial installations that map emotional life through site-specific ritual, obsessive process, and the politics of the overlooked.

Theobald’s research is grounded in “Locational Empathy,” the mimetic process of learning about the subtleties of place through prolonged attention and awareness. She responds to active sites ranging from city-transit platforms, parking lots, and tense bureaucratic offices by projecting emotional intimacy onto their surfaces and gleaning poetics from their own systems of function.

Within her sensorial installations, Theobald offers insight into her ongoing investigations of intimacy, banality, and the architecture of feeling in the form of large scale, accumulative sculpture grounded by reminders of soft bureaucracy in daily life.