Said Dokins, Ethereal. Milano Design Week 2019

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

“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.