Ruido, seems to be this artist´s most daring work. It consists of nine screens arranged in a circle, and shows the images of nine rappers singing together acapella.
Yoel is concise: nine young rappers: three girls and six boys, all non-professional rappers, translate the popular discourse that underlies the suburbs of the capital. Each one tells his or her story through gesture, dress, the slang of a marginal individual, because rap, being a popular genre, is related to the humblest and most marginal strata of the population.
They’re all singing at home: the best place to express themselves with full liberty, without fear of being called down from the stage because of the content of their songs. The rap expresses feelings with a rough edge that is as disconsolately sincere as the street words that translate it. The final scene is a chaotic, aggressive cacophony – resounding of the street, the neighborhood, the city noise that we’re invaded by in a reality imbued with despair and impotence. The struggle for existence relentlessly means survival of the fittest.
Sandra Sosa Fernández – Cuban art curator