Contradictions of Necropolitics in Brazil During the Pandemic: Semiotic Study on Art and Photography – Contradições da Necropolítica no Brasil Durante a Pandemia: Estudo Semiótico Sobre Arte e Fotografia

The objective of this study is to establish comparisons between Portinari's work Immigrants (1944) and Ricardo Borges' photograph, illustrated in a news article in Revista Veja (2020), adopted as a record of the necropolitics implemented by the government during the Covid-19 period (2020-2022). The dialectical method under the semiotic perspective was used in the research investigation to highlight the aggravations of the contradictions that occurred during the pandemic. And the results showed that this decision-making culminated in a significant increase in deaths caused by the disease, as well as in social inequalities, at a stage of recurrence only compared to the years of misery experienced by the Northeastern population in the 19th and 20th centuries. It can be inferred that the comparative data between the works showed that the necropolitics established by the Brazilian government was similar to the state of confinement established in Ceará, determined by the Vargas government in 1930, on the occasion of the great drought that hit the Northeast of the country.