Juan Carlos Ponce Reyes
The private of the public is the phrase that came to mind when listening and seeing to Rocío Cerón's MIIUNI project, a Purepecha word that means “telling and knowing a place”. This project consisted of intervening with poetry and sound art, courtyards in the city of Córdoba, Spain. Courtyards that, in the public space of the city, become private when walking through them. The steps weave the spaces, since “walking is to the urban system what enunciation is to language”, according to Michel de Certeau (The invention of the Everyday, pp. 109-110). Enunciation of the artist when visiting them for the first time, of the passers-by who attended the interventions, and through the five pieces that make up this EP, we privately go through those public spaces by listening to them: from the running of the water of its fountains, the singing of the birds, the conversations of its inhabitants and the cars in the distance. And when we listen we perceive that, as Cerón tells us, “Every courtyard is an interior courtyard”.
Juan Carlos Ponce Reyes