Anna Bella Geiger Our Daily Bread, 1978 Our Daily Bread 1978 is comprised of six postcards and a brown paper bag with offset printing mounted on card. Each of the postcards repro- duce black and white photographic images. The first depicts the lower section of a woman’s face, focusing on her mouth, in front of which she holds a slice of white bread. Two postcards show close-ups of slices of bread with the cartographic shape of Latin America and Brazil removed from the centres. Another postcard shows the two slices alongside one another and a further postcard shows the slices in a breadbasket. The last postcard shows the breadbasket with no bread but with the outline of Latin America and Brazil remaining where previously the slices with their voids had been. The brown paper bag is of a type that was typically used in Brazil for bread. The work documents a performance by Geiger in 1978 that addressed the subject of poverty within Brazil, but also more widely within Latin America.
