Trio House Press
| April
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 corresponding open book from which it was taken. The act of extraction is made deliberately visible—the remaining edge of paper protrudes jaggedly from the spine, marking the physical force required to separate poem from object. This gesture foregrounds the labor, resistance and insistence involved in presenting poetry as fine art, a recurring concern throughout Caballero’s 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, of enclosure are necessary to assign value. The frame becomes both a mechanism of elevation and a site of tension, prompting viewers to consider how cultural legitimacy is produced, and at what cost.
The diptych of book and orphaned page transforms absence into presence, asking viewers to confront what has been removed and what remains. The poem occupies a duplicated space—inhabiting the pagination of its former life and a new existence as aspiring artwork—reflecting a broader meditation on poetry’s resilience, materiality and cultural value.