With boots on
2017
ANIMATION LOOP ON VIDEO AND BOOTS
Length 2:58

In collaboration with Mansión Béquer

On the screen an animation of a stroll can be seen, the background integrated by diverse landscapes that have been important to Martínez and many other people part of the alternative culture or underground in Guadalajara. Contrasting to the current status and glamour of the Dr. Martens brand, outside the screen a REY boots can be seen, like the ones punks (and laborers) from Guadalajara used during the eighties and nineties. There is a phrase that reads “morir con las botas puestas” (“to die with the boots on”). To walk barefoot, to take the costume off? To leave all clichés behind? Nostalgia? Criticism? Utopia?

Text by Esteban King