O pão nosso de cada dia [Our Daily Bread]

Using maps, text, and experimental media such as Mail art, Anna Bella Geiger frequently critiques in her work the marginality of Brazil and Latin America in relation to the United States and Europe. “O pão nosso de cada dia,” a set of postcards packaged in a paper bread bag, documents a performance in which Geiger ate away from slices of bread to create the outlines of Brazil and South America. Geiger’s ironic performance of consumption—as if taking “our daily bread” in a Catholic Mass—mixes references to anthropophagy (the ingestion of the other), which in Brazil is closely tied to notions of indigenous and cultural resistance, with references to poverty and access to food.