Video- performance (Installation), color, sound, 2020, (0.09.16)

Bloodshed is a response to the violence and massacre of the Iranian people in November 2019 in several cities of the country during protests against the increase in gasoline prices, corruption, and inequality. According to the Iran Human Rights Center and Reuters, the state killed at least 1500 people in the streets and arrested over 7000 peaceful demonstrators who expressed their dissatisfaction and desire for a regime change. This video-performance represents my feeling of being drowned in the blood of this barbarity committed against the Iranian population, away from the world’s attention, while international political powers fail to condemn them due to a lack of diplomatic interest. The video overlays images of the performance where I struggle in a bath of blood with those of the protests and massacres of Iranians in the streets of the country, filmed by the protesters themselves, as the presence of all national and international journalists was forbidden. The voiceover is that of a journalist from France 24.