Un Grito Gallery is excited to present "San Anto, te amo – Running with History”, an immersive exhibition of new performance video projections by Martín C. Rodríguez. This show will open Thursday, December 4th, and Friday, December 5th, 2025, from 7-10 pm with a closing reception held on December 18th, 2025. Other visitation by appointment only.

“San Anto, te amo – Running with History” by Martín Rodríguez is the 3rd edition of an ongoing series of performances involving physical interactions at iconic locations, exploring the nature of place and time.
Martín Rodríguez asks, “Why walk through history when you can run,” and asserts that the race does not always go to the swiftest, but to those who keep on running.

“San Anto, te amo” is a moving meditation on history, place, and the body in motion. Filmed in slow motion across specific sites in San Antonio, Texas, each performance traces a dialogue between the city’s layered past and its enduring connection to Mexico. Wearing Huaraches acquired in Mexico—a gesture of cultural continuity, appreciation, and consciousness—I run through spaces that hold memory, migration, and transformation.

The act of running becomes both ritual and resistance, a way to traverse invisible borders and to feel history through the soles of the feet. In slowing time, the camera expands each gesture, each breath, revealing the tension between movement and stillness, endurance and pause. The body becomes a temporal bridge—linking histories, landscapes, and identities that have long been intertwined yet divided.
“San Anto, te amo” is a love letter to a city shaped by crossings—of rivers, cultures, and eras. It invites viewers to see running not as escape, but as return: a rhythmic affirmation of belonging, a choreography of remembrance, and a play with time itself.

Martín C. Rodríguez, b. 1971, based in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Martín received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003, and Master of Fine Arts in 2018, both from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a New Media Interdisciplinary artist of Puerto Rican descent, with an emphasis in performance and installations, having performed at the Capilla del Arte in Puebla City, the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and Hotel Pupik in Scheifling, Austria, throughout Washington D.C., throughout the city of Berlin, Germany. And, of course, San Antonio, TX. His art is part of both private and public collections. Martín is co-founder and gallerist of Un Grito Gallery in the Upstairs Studios at the Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio, TX. Martín's wife, Verena Gaudy, is his closest collaborator and partner at Un Grito.

As a recipient of the FY 2025 Individual Artist Grant, this project was made possible with the support of the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture.