Said Dokins among the Top100 Most Creative Mexicans in the World
In their December
edition, Forbes Mexico Magazine presents the list of the top 100 Most
Creative Mexicans in the Word, to recognize the work of men and woman
who, from different fields of creation -gastronomy, arts,
architecture, music, dance, literature, entertainment, among others-,
have managed to stand out internationally, breaking molds and opening
new tracks.
Said Dokins is part
of that list because of the remarkable work he developed this year,
painting huge walls in different cities around the world, to
establish conversations with diverse communities through his
calligraphic landscapes, compositions where the poetry of each sign
goes beyond its meaning to open multidimensional reflections.
TOP TEN 2019.
Most hallucinating
pieces of the year!
We invite you to
take a look at the top 10 most hallucinating pieces made by Said
Dokins during 2019, a great chance to know his amazing work, enjoy!
FEBRUARY / CAPE TOWN
/ SOUTH AFRICA
Salt River /
District 6. Stories Of A Word
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Salt River / District 6. Stories Of A Word. Cape Town.
For International Public Art Festival @ipaf_festival_sa South Africa
A mural painted in
Cape Town, South Africa, for the International Public Art Festival
dedicated to the people from District 6, who were displaced from
their home because of the apartheid, and are still struggling to
recover their original place.
MARCH / CENTRAL DE
ABASTOS / MEXICO
Struggling Women.
The Head of Coatlicue
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Mujeres luchadoras. Cabeza de Coatlicue, 2019. ONU
Mujeres, #HeForShe, Central de Muros, CDMX, Mexico.
Struggling Women.
The Head of Coatlicue is a mural of around 300m2 in the Central de
Abastos in Mexico City, one of the biggest markets in the world, a
homage to the women who struggle every day to open new spaces,
sponsored by UN Women and the campaign HeForShe, and Central de
muros.
MARCH / MILANO /
ITALY
AMA. Stories Of A
Word
Said Dokins
@saidokins + Biokip Labs + Via del Tirchino residents, AMA. Historias
de una palabra, 2019. Bloop Experience. Milano, Italy.
AMA. Stories of a
Word, a 3 massive murals intervention in Via de Turchino, Milano,
framed by Bloop Festival Milano, where the artist included the
stories of the community, experiences of war and fascism, but also
their dreams and hopes towards the future, to create the palindrome
AMA, a word that contains the tensions of the lived stories.
APRIL / MILANO /
ITALY
Palimpsestos
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Palimpsestos. Produced by Biokip Labs. Bloop Showcase.
Milano, Italy.
Exhibition
Palimpsestos, during the Design Week Milano, the show gathered works
elaborated in collaboration with Biokip Atelier, centered in the
reflection about the process of conformation of memory through
inscription, the resignification of the symbolic and the relation of
people with the public space.
MAY / IBIZA / SPAIN
Entropy
Said Dokins
@saidokins , Entropy, 2019. Ibiza, Spain, Bloop Festival 2019
Entropy, an
spectacular mural, painted in Bloop Festival Ibiza, that explores the
concept of entropy in relation with contemporary society: chaos and
disorder as origin, as a force that generates new dynamics,
redefining the way we conceive and act in the spaces we share.
JUNE / SAN LUIS
POTOSI / MEXICO
Runaway Writings.
Retrospective exhibition
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Runaway Writings, 2019. Centro de las Artes San Luis
PotosÍ. Photos: Leonardo Luna
Retrospective
exhibition “Runaway Writings” in the Center of Arts of San Luis
Potosí. The show, curated by Claudia de la Garza, brings together
iconic works of the artist, with pieces made expressly for the
occasion, including installation, light art, painting, sculpture and
pieces of the series Heliographies of Memory, in collaboration with
photographer Leonardo Luna; is a trip through Dokins' main conceptual
and formal explorations, revealing his multifaceted character and his
deep reflections about inscription as a place of encounter and
tension, conflict and community.
AUGUST / SAN LUIS
POTOSI / MEXICO
El testigo. The
Witness
Said Dokins
@saidokins, El Testigo, 2019, Former Penitentiary in San Luis Potosí.
Mexico
“The witness.
Stories of a word”, mural intervention on the central tower of the
CEART San Luis Potosí, that used to be the watchtower when the place
served as a penitentiary. Dokins intertwines the stories of
prisoners, custodians, psychologists, even executives, to reinterpret
them with his own style, rewriting these events and accumulating them
in a multitude of strokes forming a texture that surrounds the tower.
OCTOBER / LONDON /
UNITED KINGDOM
Three Flowers for
London
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Three Flowers for London, 2019. London UK
“Three Flowers for
London”, a project carried out in Central London, Brick Lane and
Hackney, where Said used poetry and his fantastic geometric
calligraphic compositions to draw attention on the climate change.
NOVEMBER / SAN JUAN
TLIHUACA / MEXICO
Ofrenda de los
animeros
Said Dokins
(@saidokins) + Mantra (@mantrarea) . Ofrenda de los animéros. San
Juan Tlihuaca. Día de Muertos 2019. @_urbana_mx
“Ofrenda de los
animeros”, is an offering-mural made in collaboration with Mantrea
during the festivities of the Day of Deaths, an important celebration
in Mexico, in the community of San Juan Tlihuaca, in Mexico City.
Post Mortem Festival, organized by Urbana MX.
DECEMBER / MEXICO
Memoria canera
Said Dokins
@saidokins, Memoria canera, 2019. Maximum Security Penitentiary for
High Impact Crimes, Morelia, Michoacán
“Memoria canera”
of the series Constellations. Mural intervention in the Maximum
Security Penitentiary for High Impact Crimes of Morelia, Michoacan,
based on the testimonies of the interns.
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