Book Sculptures
Another Airport Poem
Another Airport Poem is from Ana María Caballero’s Book Sculptures, an eight-part series that questions how society values poetry.
This series proposes the book as a sculptural object and will see Caballero print eight different books, each as an edition of one, with a unique ISBN and the anatomy and structure of a traditional book. The books in this series contain only one poem, printed 197 times in their pages. When taken as integers, the digits in 197 add up to 8, a number that represents abundance.
Developed with a bespoke book binder, the works in this series are stunning objects yet remain very authentically books, with a table of contents, an author page and a dedication, which is hand-signed and dedicated to its collector.
This MP4 is the digital component of Another Airport Poem and shows a single page of the book endlessly turning while Caballero reads the text, accentuating the artist’s expansion of the ways poetry can be experienced, exhibited and transacted in the digital age.
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