Fine Print brings together Ana María Caballero and aurèce vettier, two artists redefining the boundaries of contemporary poetics, presenting concise surveys of their respective bodies of work and unique approaches to the literary arts. 

Fusing performance, artificial intelligence, blockchain provenance, choreography and analogue generativity, Caballero and vettier gather language deep within the folds of the body and nature. In doing so, they invent new systems of signification, expanding the techno-ecologies of our present and future. 

Caballero’s oeuvre is well represented in this exhibition, which features her choreographic works Waiting Room and Mammal as well as two projects that explore analogue generativity: Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem and Paperwork. 

For Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem, Caballero invited different people to read and annotate the same poem, performing their experience of its verse via hand-written marginalia. The combined, iterative interventions in this series represent the collective evolution of readership. Language is universal—yet personal—and every reading pulls and pushes it forth.  

In Paperwork, Caballero’s performance-based, generative AI collection of paper sculptures, the artist materialised individual emotional responses to spoken-word poetry through the digital form. Included in this exhibition are two artist-owned editions from the series, rendered as physical sculptures for the first time. 

aurèce vettier's work consists in recreating, with the help of cutting-edge algorithms combined with intimate data – sometimes derived from dreams – a world that almost resembles the one we know, but not exactly – not unlike working with many dimensions in mathematics, or when delving into a book written by Haruki Murakami. 

In resonance with Caballero's work, aurèce vettier presents several emblematic AI-generated works from his series le travail des rêves, as well as a set of poems, “without our presence, the soil breaks down”, referring to the very last sentences of René Daumal's unfinished work, Mount Analogue.

Beyond the works presented in the exhibition, Fine Print embodies the synergistic ethos of networked cultures and Web3, where intertextuality strengthens individual efforts to transform how poetry is exhibited, experienced and transmitted in the digital age.