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Nadya Tolokonnikova is used to being watched.

As a founder of Pussy Riot, the 36-year-old Russian performance art collective, the artist, musician and political dissident has been in Vladimir Putin’s crosshairs for nearly half her life, landing on Russia’s wanted list in 2023.

From Nov. 25 to 30 in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Edlis Neeson Theater, however, she will be very much on view — by design.

Tolokonnikova’s performance installation “Police State” corrals her inside a re-creation of, in Tolokonnikova’s words, “the platonic ideal of a Russian prison cell.” She would know: Tolokonnikova estimates she inhabited some 20 cells in 12 prison facilities during her two-year sentence.

Visitors to “Police State” can peer at her through peep

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