

The conceptualisation of the somatheque in relation to Foucault’s theory of biopolitics, explored through reclamations of the female breastthrough contrasting visual and material explorations, with a specific exploitation of latex both materially and aesthetically. Through sculptural practices
the symbiotic relationship between the abject, somatheque and racialised body is uncovered. But rather than through excretion, an investigation into

an investigation into the boundaries and subversivism of what qualifies as abject is investigated. Further exploring how abject art situates within the contemporary sphere. The conceptualisation of the BIPOC female as an inherently abject body, through its cast off and
othered status within the world, sufficiently communicates the abject through its encapsulation of the abject within itself.

The Hot War explores female body through an to political legislation, female facing and gender Preciado’s investigation of the female within a
Through a considered gaze into the of the gendered through inherent and dominations of as Precadio explains
‘We are dealing political regime that declares children, homosexual, trans, be territories where national while the female body is annex, a colony
the sovereignty of the analysis of abortion in relation resulting in the ownership of non-conforming bodies. pertains to the viability society that illegalises it.
somatheque i aim to consider the viability and racialized body fetishisations the BIPOC female
here with a female gendered bodies, and nonbinary bodies to sovereignty holds sway… represented as a territory to to occupy.’
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century factory
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The somatheque can be be expropriated... entirely reduced to
‘The living human body
was
the
the living body is the factory. a mere anatomical object, but what I call that is to say, a historically political space that can in much less as private property
is to the twentieth-first what the the seat of political struggle… The living human body is not a natural organism, a “somatheque,” and collectively constructed no way be treated as an object, belonging to the subject. brutally objectified... it can But it can never be an object or property.’





