​​Ashleigh Abbott (AERA) makes sculptural and participatory works about how bodies are shaped by care, control, and attention. Her installations create situations where looking, waiting, and being watched are part of the structure—not neutral acts.

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Using materials like clothing, salt, hair, rhinestones, light, and sound, Abbott builds spaces that feel intimate, uneasy, and physical. She works with ritual, domestic space, and myth as real systems that shape behavior. The work does not explain or resolve these systems—it places viewers inside them and lets the tension remain.