BEATE GEGENWART 

For me, the circle is place, a central location where paths are converging and endless movement is taking place.

‘We assume that life is lived authentically on the spot, in places rather than along paths. Yet how could there be places, if people did not come and go? Life on the spot surely cannot yield an experience of place, of being somewhere. 

To be a place every somewhere must lie on one or several paths of movement to and from places elsewhere. Life is lived along paths, not just in places, and paths are lines of a sort.’ - Ingold, T. (2007) Lines: A Brief History, Routledge

As Agor artists, we chose as our common theme the circle as a symbol for ‘Opening’/’Öffnung’. The circle by necessity embodies movement (round and round) and it inspired me to walk daily along the coast, absorbing the rhythms and forces of nature. 

Language too is very important to me and a particular poem by Ingeborg Bachmann struck a chord for the most recent series of works ‘Landscape Outside Vienna’ – Crane Series

‘Where the crane completes

its circle amid the rushes of the marsh’s flat water, 

on a reed the hour strikes more resonantly than waves.’ - Ingeborg Bachmann