In the abbey archives, Caballero found poems written to commemorate women entering religious life or the beguinage. Although these were deeply personal moments, the women were always described in the same words: devotion, sacrifice, obedience. Their individual lives disappeared behind prescribed ideals. Using imagined portraits created with a custom AI model and her own poetry, Caballero gives them back a face and a voice. In the video she speaks in the first person: women who were once spoken about become speaking subjects. The whole is presented as a speculative museum website that considers how representations enter the historical record and the canon. During the opening weekend, the artist will read her poetry herself

About the artist

Ana María Caballero is a Colombian artist and poet based in Madrid. Her practice moves between text, performance, installation and digital media and addresses language, gender, historical erasure and the ways identities are narrated or suppressed. She often reactivates overlooked female voices through poetry and performance. She has presented work across Europe and the Americas, in both literary and visual art contexts.