Nurbol Nurakhmet’s recent works explore the intricacies of inhabiting a body as a site of subjectivity, politics and memory. His paintings and collages depict the indwelling of the psychical in the somatic and how this embodied subjectivity impacts our perceptions of self and the spaces we inhabit. Nurakhmet’s use of the animal body, in dialogue with works of the human form, illustrate the interconnection between the body, subjectivity, power and discipline. Therefore, the artist tackles the intricacies of what he terms ‘biopolitics.’ Working with the idea of the panopticon, Nurakhmet critiques a government that reduces its citizens to bodies and statistics. His engagement with biopolitics thinks through this Foucauldian idea of the body as highly-surveyed data, yet, he also conveys the violence and domination that accompanies the transformation of subjectivities into visceral objects.