Toledo Museum of Art
| May
Page Break
Page Break is a conceptual series that extends Caballero’s ongoing effort to take poetry beyond the page while preserving a deep reverence for its most intimate and enduring vessel: the book.
Echo Graph, from Caballero’s Page Break series, Installation shots from the artist’s solo show at Office Impart, Berlin, 2025
In this series, Caballero frames her published poetry books and removes a single page from each volume, presenting it alongside the book from which it was taken. The act of extraction is left visible—the remaining edge of paper protrudes jaggedly from the spine, signaling the effort required to take poetry beyond the page, a central concern in her practice.
The creation of the first Page Break, 2025
By enclosing her written work within frames typically reserved for other forms of visual art, Page Break reveals the poetry book as what it’s always been: an object of desire.
Simultaneously, this act questions whether such acts of framing are necessary to assign value. The frame becomes a site of tension, asking viewers to consider how cultural legitimacy is produced.
The poem occupies a double space—inhabiting the pagination of its former life and a new existence as aspiring artwork—offering a reflection on poetry’s materiality and value.