This GIF essay navigates the repercussions and the human cost of the covid-19 crisis in Brazil, discussing the eugenic policies of the neofascist Bolsonaro regime and outlining the biopolitical/colonial structures of power that drive its response to the pandemic. In a non-linear timeline, the work examines the temporal processes that collapse into the current situation, discussing the central role of white supremacy in the formation of contemporary nation-states in Latin America; capitalist notions of productivity and the body traced back to chattel slavery the the colonial economy; and the confluence of anticolonial futurities and pathogen resistance.
This work was commissioned and developed with the support of the Laboratory of Contested Space / Art & Truthtelling at the Junge Akademie / Akademie der Künste.
