City 01 Skate Days, 2015. Skatepark Monte Tossal (Castillo San Fernando). Alicante. Spain. Sneakers on the rock II

Sneakers can project the shape of the engagement. They are a cult object by which experience and dedication are also defined. In skate some objects acquire other meanings. These meanings are built in relation to a practice that goes beyond sporting usages and are deposited in a cultural framework.

Sneakers force other symbols. You see it in the gnawed seams on each side, on the instep scraped, broken, decomposed by usage. Breaking them means much more than the time you’ve been using them. They represent commitment, dedication, experience. The dichotomy between the new and the old does not exist so much to confront two qualities, but to merge into another category: the Breakage. New sneakers are the object still devoid of meaning. The symbolic charge begins with continuous practice. Breakage is the consequence of an act of will and effort.

Quote. Javier M. Reguera. See work Will 1, 2019

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.