Said Dokins among the Top 100 Most Creative Mexicans in the World / FORBES MAGAZINE
Mexican creativity on the top
In the 85th edittion (December 2019-January 2020), Forbes Mexico magazine reveals the 100 most creative Mexicans in the world of 2019, to recognize the work of woman and men who, from different fields of creation - arts, architecture, music, dance, literature, entertainment, gastronomy, street art, among others-, have managed to stand out internationally, breaking molds and opening new tracks.
Said Dokins is part of that list because of the extraordinary 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 de poetry of each sign goes beyond its meaning to open multidimensional reflections.
Said Dokins: The Mexican who takes words to the walls of the world. #LosMexicanosMásCreativos
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Words that take walls and define their inhabitants
Said Dokins/ Urban Artists.
Painted 3 murals in London as part of the concept “Three Flowers for London”. Has painted murals in places like Italy, South Africa and Norway. His work employs a calligraphic style developed with accentuated geometric forms, and behind, there are the words, rumors and issues of contemporary communities.
Said
Dokins found a way to capture the essence of towns in their streets,
acknowledging their problems and trends. He does it through a visual
reinterpretation of words on big murals, through a calligraphy which
combines styles from all over the world.
Beyond
the first visual impact that his pieces might cause in a pedestrian
or in a centennial while going down with his thumb through his
Instagram’s feed, each project address, with different elements,
the characteristics of the environment where it’s done.
Said Dokins (@saidokins) + Mantra (@mantrarea) . Ofrenda de los animéros. San Juan Tlihuaca. Día de Muertos 2019. @_urbana_mx
Said Dokins @saidokins + Biokip Labs + Via del Turchino residents, AMA, 2019. Photo: Malaka
His
strokes can be found in such diverse latitudes, as in San Juan
Tilcahuaca, Azcapotzálco (Mexico City) or in the neighborhood of
Calvairate, in Milano, Italy.
In
late 2018, he intervened a storehouse in Stavanger, south of Norway,
for which he was inspired in one of the most controversial phenomena
nowadays: migration, subject he tackled from the perspective of those
who arrive, and also, from those who host them.
The
result was a huge mural where it could be read the word “Naerhet”
(closeness
in Norwegian), a concept that serves as a meeting point between
locals and foreigners.
Said Dokins @saidokins NÆRHET, 2018. Stories Of A Word Series. Nuart, Stavanger, Norway. Photo: @leodluna
“Generally,
the raw material is the context: how people relate to their own
surroundings, the impressions that come to me while being in these
places… the first hit that pops up of what is there in the city”.
This
procedure changes according to the site where he works, but explains
to a large extent, the creative process of the artist, where there
are no coincidences, and that has a lot to do with one of the most
frequent urban expressions: graffiti.
Dokins
considers that creativity is “a moment that generates a thread
towards knowledge. Is an interrogation, beyond methodology, that has
the ability to produce knowledge”.
For
this Mexican artist, next stop is the United Arab Emirates, where
he’s preparing an interactive installation for the Sharjah
Calligraphy Biennial, the most important event of its kind in the
planet. Besides that, he’s working in a new conceptual phase of his
work.
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