"So what? What do you want me to do? My name is Messiah but I don't do miracles." That was the answer given by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro after being asked by a journalist about the daily record of deaths from coronavirus in Brazil (474 deaths that day).
“So what?” a popular expression that denotes indifference, sometimes contempt, gives title to the video-performance: a response to the necropolitics of the Bolsonaro’s government.
While he says "so what", thousands of people die, especially the minorities whom he publicly declares hatred: women, the poor, LGBTs, black people and workers. There is blood on the hands of this government that washes its carefully trying to not leave evidences.
Made with a LG K10 cell phone camera, vertically, in the usual instagram stories format, the video lasts 6:20 minutes, without edition. Its format refers to the ways in which the private became public with the advent of social networks - used for communication in the social isolation.
Set in a bathroom, an extremely private space, the video exposes the artist Liz Under, naked, with mask, touching frantically on a soap-liquid holder, releasing blood instead of soap, spreading it in a frustrated attempt to wash her hands, in growing despair.
The video was made in an isolated bathroom at the artist's house, used only when she returns from the streets: she takes a shower and then washes the bathroom with chlorine and water. Your clothes are put in the washing machine immediately.