City 01 Skate Days, 2018. Muelle Levante-Volvo. Alicante. Spain. Decollage skate II

The skateboard is a pictorial surface, through which all kinds of artistic styles and forms of expression have been captured: humor, politics, experimental illustration, comics, subversion, postmodernism, psychedelia, social slogans, pop, rebellion, etc. . Skaters carry their boards on the rail of the city, and with this they transfer art from one place to another.

But the true value of the table and the design traced on its back is in the deterioration produced with use. The pictorial plot tends to transform (erase, blur, tear, reinterpret). In this sense, there is a certain parallelism with «Decollage», an artistic technique consisting of constructing a new image from other images that have been previously torn off or scrape: the primary image loses part of its original reference.

Quote. Javier M. Reguera. See Skate, un arte itinerante, en Killed by podcast, 2016.

City 00Skate days (CSKD) is a project of great scope on the world of skateboarding, raised from a vision that tries to go beyond its sporting side. I focus attention on aspects that reflect a subcultural model, very diverse moments and contexts, attitudes and signs that tell us about that experience: fashion, graffiti, gestures, local environments, lifestyles, group interaction, youth and contemporary identities. But it also opens up to other perspectives: the visibility and roles of women in the world of skateboarding, the relationship between skate and social integration based on community actions, the practice of skate in developing countries, the reinterpretation of urban culture from the expressiveness of very different local identities.

City 00Skate days (CSKD) es un proyecto fotográfico sobre el mundo del skate, planteado desde una visión que intenta ir más allá de su vertiente deportiva. Centro la atención en aspectos que reflejan un modelo subcultural, momentos y contextos muy diversos, actitudes y signos que nos hablan de esa vivencia: moda, graffiti, gestos, entornos locales, estilos de vida, interacción grupal, identidades juveniles. Pero también se abre a otras perspectivas: la visibilidad y roles de la mujer en el mundo del skate, la relación entre el skate y la integración social a partir de acciones comunitarias, la práctica del skate en países en vías de desarrollo, la reinterpretación de la cultura urbana desde la expresividad de muy diversas identidades locales.