In her most recent micro poetic film, Ana María Caballero pays homage to Pipilotti Rist’s Ever Is Over All and proposes an evolution in personal empowerment. Whereas Rist’s protagonist symbolically takes down failed systems, Caballero’s main character practices radical repair.
Pace posits that private joy is as powerful a form of resistance as destruction.
Melissa Wiederrecht and Ana María Caballero’s collaborative piece Miss Metaverse (2024) uses the beauty pageant to deliver satirical commentary on the expression of selfhood for artists in Web3, probing how the public, online presentation of this self results in its distortion.
When visibility equates career viability, artists must establish their worth via social and commercial skills that bear no relationship with the quality or substance of their creative work. This is particularly true for women artists, whose work almost always commands lower prices and who must often reduce themselves to a series of digestible and desirable traits, eerily reminiscent of those that govern beauty pageants.
Ropa sucia (The Wash) is a limited edition artist book by Ana María Caballero, released in partnership with S/W Ediciones. Each version of Ropa sucia contains a unique set of twelve poems angenerativitywith which to hang them. Each edition also includes a unique digital print. This project combines Caballero’s of analog and machine-driven generativity.
A spoken-word poem by Ana María Caballero visualized via a series of works coded in p5js that convey pregnant time–with its sensations of inevitability, vulnerability, and physical entrapment. Written in Caballero’s signature straightforward style, this text forms part of her prize-winning manuscript MAMMAL.
Caballero drafted Pome’s verse as she wrote the code behind its visuals, which are meant to evoke the emotional entrapment of longing. Every single word that functions as a javascript command is embedded into the lyrical text, celebrating language’s elasticity— words faithfully serve both technical and artistic expression.
Created for the Tribute to Herbert W. Franke.
I Wish for the Metaverse to Rinse off of Me is a collection about both the power and the infirmity of affirmations. Shamanic, mantra-like, willful, affirmations seek to map a desired direction. That is, until time and mind get in the way. Within brief, passing moments, our minds are able to manifest conflicting wishes—and do so via declarative, convincing statements.
Poems in the Public Domain [PITPD] represents a new form of poetic anthology—one that celebrates the role of the reader in shaping the life of a poem. In this unique art piece, 14 readers take turns discovering 30 classic poems. We invite collectors to explore this compendium, selected to present a diverse, engaging archive that acknowledges the importance of certain seminal works in shaping our collective unconscious.
