Ana María Caballero – ECHO GRAPH
Echo Graph, is the first solo exhibition by Ana María Caballero with the gallery and also her first solo show in Germany.
The exhibition presents a single poem in multiple ways, exploring how the medium through which verse is experienced affects the meaning it conveys.
Echo Graph brings together Caballero’s acclaimed performative, sculptural, conceptual and written work–crossing over from digital into analog realms with such ease that the boundary between these becomes blurred to the point of irrelevance. The pieces in this exhibition challenge notions of materiality and immersion, asking us to bear witness to the ways language takes hold within and without our bodies.
The curatorial text „Will the body of the poem please stand up?“ for the exhibition is from Doreen Rios, which can be found here
Ana María Caballero’s Book Sculptures question how society values poetry and propose the book as a sculptural object. Echo Graph, the fourth volume from this eight-part series, exists as a single edition and contains one eponymous poem printed 197 times in its pages. When taken as integers, the digits in 197 add up eventually to 8, a number that represents abundance. As with the other tomes in Caballero’s Book Sculptures, Echo Graph has a unique ISBN and the anatomy and structure of a traditional book. Caballero is deeply interested in exploring new ways to transact poetry. When objects are transacted, they are exchanged, shared, given, received. Value is assigned. Sometimes verse is considered to be immaterial, but nothing is more material than the artworks, verses, memories that enter our minds as we wait in line, sit in traffic, boil eggs. Nothing is more material than what makes us tick.
Caballero’s Book Sculptures celebrate the materiality of poetry and the renewed cultural agency afforded to verse via blockchain provenance.
The collector of the physical 1/1 book also receives a 1/1 video work of a single page of the book endlessly turning while Caballero reads the poem, accentuating the artist’s expansion of the ways poetry can be experienced, exhibited and transacted in the digital age.
Ana María Caballero
Echo Graph – Book Sculpture, 2025
Book, MP4, 02:07 min, 1080 x 1920, Bitcoin text-only inscription
18 x 12 x 3 cm
1/1 + 1 AP
8.700,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
„In Echo Graph’s mini film, the poem escapes the page. It pulses through motion-captured choreography, where Caballero’s body inverts hierarchies and echoes the interoperability of digital languages, 0’s and 1’s, full and empty, on and off. “
Ana María Caballero
Echo Graph, 2025
In this multi-faceted rendition of self, Ana Maria Caballero expands her acclaimed Literal Litoral series of choreographic poems to place her body where it all begins—the womb. Echo Graph is an exercise in inversion: the poet becomes her creation, the mother replaces her fetus, the patient subverts her doctor’s verdict.
Though physical failure here is defined by others, namely, a medical face, the vocal delivery and choreographic score question its validity. In Echo Graph, the body transmits the hidden layers of written text to create a rich strata of complementary and contradictory meanings, as often happens in everyday exchanges.
Recorded via motion-capture technology, this new work continues Caballero’s explorations of how physical movement can translate the spoken-word, using body language to unleash the vital, guttural essence of communication.
From Caballero’s award-winning book MAMMAL.
Shown for the first time in this exhibition, this new conceptual series represents Caballero’s efforts to take poetry beyond the page, while maintaining and conveying her reverence for that beloved object: the book.
Ana María Caballero
Echo Graph – Page Break, 2025
Framed diptych containing a book and a single page
44 x 38 x 4.5 cm, each
1/1 + 1 AP
3.400,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Ana María Caballero
Are you sure? I ask., 2025
Print, framed, including the digital file
50 x 100 cm / 25 x 100 cm
Unique
5.200,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
„Transitioning from screen to print, the poem fractures into stills—fragments of motion suspended in time. These images, modular and open-ended, echo the way memory shatters and reassembles.“
Ana María Caballero
such physical failure a not uncommon thing, 2025
Print, framed, including the digital file
50 x 100 cm, each
Unique
5.800,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Ana María Caballero
Placental, 2025
Print, framed, including the digital file
40 x 80 cm
1/3
2.250,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
Ana María Caballero
This is not a thing you’d sense, 2025
Print, framed, including the digital file
40 x 80 cm
2/3
2.250,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
„Echo Graph is a manifesto of intertextuality. Where the materiality of poetry becomes elusive, the artist restores poetry’s multidimensionality—its capacity to inhabit video, sculpture, image, skin, and bone.“
Ana María Caballero
a not uncommon thing, 2025
Print, framed, including the digital file
40 x 80 cm
2/3
2.250,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
*all quotes are taken from the curatorial text for the exhibition by Doreen Rios, which can be found here
About Ana Maria Caballero
Ana Maria Caballero is the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Art Writers Award and a Sevens Foundation Grant.
In 2024, she became the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s. Recognized as a digital poetry pioneer, her work has been nominated for a MAXXI BVLGARI Prize in the Digital Sector, shortlisted for a Lumen Prize, been a finalist for both the Vassar Miller and Academy of American Poetry Prizes
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Echo Graph, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
Echo Graph, at Expo Sunderland, UK
Stage, Kristiansund, NO
The Second Guess, HEK Museum, Basel, CHE
2024
Arrangements, Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz, AUT
Paperwork at Digital Dialogues | Art Basel, New World Symphony Center, Miami, USA
Notions of Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Journeys Through Oneself, Arab Bank of Switzerland, Geneva, CH
Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem, Museo De Arte Centemporaneo De Vigo, Kerouac
Festival, SP
MATERIAL POETRY, HEK(House of Electronic Arts), Münchenstein / Basel, CH
Fine Print, Load Gallery, Barcelona, ESP
Beyond the Page, WUF Basel, CH (s)
Miss Metaverse: Interactive Display on Dover Street, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
SPACES, DIGITAL INNOVATION MEETS CONTEMPORARY ART, Sothebys London, UK
Digital Art Week, Outernet, London, UK
Artcrush x Clear Channel Exhibition, Brussels, BEL
Bright Moments Venice, IT
Close Reading, OFFICE IMART, Berlin, DE
2023
Catalyst by the Knight Foundation, New World Center, Miami Beach, USA
Bright Moments Buenos Aires, Palacio Guerrico, Buenos Aires, ARG
Callart III, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, PL
Interreality, bitforms gallery Pop up, Los Angeles, USA
Archivos Atómicos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, COL
Being Borges, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
