Copy of the original cliché from 1972
Edition 20
3/20

These works were part of an installation or environment that the artist created with the participation of one of her students at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. (MOM.). This installation was made up of photos, interviews, texts, an audiovisual and a Super8 film where the artist's relationship with anthropology is reflected through Mircea Aliade and with her previous reflections on the ideas of C. Jung.
“My vision of art was extended to collective action, allied to my interests in the sphere of the archetype, of the symbolic meaning that results from the collective unconscious, becoming the only possibility of creation at that time: to search for an anonymous art created in collective action. , a result in part from an ecological conscience. I considered that environmental issue as a more spiritual relationship with the planet. The results of this journey through a "partial" environment, that is, through an environment that I considered still in process, I called Circumambulatio.

I looked for support in other operational models, not as external factors to the process (photographic records, electronic images), but as fundamental elements for the creation of that other reality, ethically and aesthetically transformed.
In other words, more than the mere use of the means that physically constitute the work, I dealt with a change of another nature between those technological means that, until then, had not been considered as an artistic instrument by specialized critics”.

“As Jung said, unless we are totally deluded, the mandalas represent the psychic center of the personality. In all ages, men instinctively perceived their existence and/or represented either circles or spirals with a sense of strength, evolution and concentration on a center.
This work attempts to situate and relate the meanings linked to the symbolism of the circumbalação (circumambulation) center (exclusive concentration process on a center that is perpetuated in man, consciously or unconsciously), and its levels of representation that range from the myth of the cosmic mountain, navel of the universe, to the urban approach of Friedman or Moles”.

Anna Bella Geiger, Rio de Janeiro, 1973. Catalog “Circumambulatio”, Museum of Contemporary Art-University of São Paulo, 1973

Copy of the original cliché from 1972
Edition 20
3/20

These works were part of an installation or environment that the artist created with the participation of one of her students at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. (MOM.). This installation was made up of photos, interviews, texts, an audiovisual and a Super8 film where the artist's relationship with anthropology is reflected through Mircea Aliade and with her previous reflections on the ideas of C. Jung.
“My vision of art was extended to collective action, allied to my interests in the sphere of the archetype, of the symbolic meaning that results from the collective unconscious, becoming the only possibility of creation at that time: to search for an anonymous art created in collective action. , a result in part from an ecological conscience. I considered that environmental issue as a more spiritual relationship with the planet. The results of this journey through a "partial" environment, that is, through an environment that I considered still in process, I called Circumambulatio.

I looked for support in other operational models, not as external factors to the process (photographic records, electronic images), but as fundamental elements for the creation of that other reality, ethically and aesthetically transformed.
In other words, more than the mere use of the means that physically constitute the work, I dealt with a change of another nature between those technological means that, until then, had not been considered as an artistic instrument by specialized critics”.

“As Jung said, unless we are totally deluded, the mandalas represent the psychic center of the personality. In all ages, men instinctively perceived their existence and/or represented either circles or spirals with a sense of strength, evolution and concentration on a center.
This work attempts to situate and relate the meanings linked to the symbolism of the circumbalação (circumambulation) center (exclusive concentration process on a center that is perpetuated in man, consciously or unconsciously), and its levels of representation that range from the myth of the cosmic mountain, navel of the universe, to the urban approach of Friedman or Moles”.

Anna Bella Geiger, Rio de Janeiro, 1973. Catalog “Circumambulatio”, Museum of Contemporary Art-University of São Paulo, 1973