“Summer News / Noticias de Verano” is a project that began in 2019 during Tania Pe´rez Co´rdova’s residency on the island of Favignana in Sicily, Italy. It emerged as a response to the generalised feeling of paralysis in the face of world events, and a more personal meditative focus on the passage of time. During the month Pe´rez Co´rdova was on the island, she compiled and transcribed all the news she found in local and international media, stripping them of all specificity. In this way, the events were transformed into a collection of micro-stories—tragic, terrifying, and comical—that framed the passage of time usually destined for artistic production. The text also serves as a reflection on the capacity for intervention in the face of the horrors and injustices we witness as readers, which contrasts with everyday life.
In 2022/2023, as part of the artist’s solo exhibition “Generalizacio´n” at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Pe´rez Co´rdova decided to collect once again the news stories framed by the exhibition’s duration, as a way of acknowledging the world’s events unfolding outside the protected walls of a contemporary art exhibition. And once again, for the second iteration of “Generalizacio´n” at the Sculpture Center in New York City, the artist began a new period of collection and transcription that culminated in a new section of the text.
“Summer News / Noticias de Verano” is a bilingual book that comprises a carefully edited version of these three texts, creating a unique, mesmerizing narrative with the power to transcend any chronological linearity and specificity.
