En el camino de la escritura como arte contemporáneo

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Enorme mural de caligrafía del artista callejero Said Dokins en Ibiza

Said Dokins

Dokins is a visual artist, designer, and researcher known for his multidisciplinary approach that includes curatorial projects, cultural management, and particularly artistic production and research across various disciplines such as drawings, pinturas, instalaciones, public space interventions, performance, video art, diseño, y fotografia.

Dokins studied Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts at UNAM, where he honed his skills and theoretical knowledge. His artistic focus is on the visual understanding of environments through textual elements, exploring the dynamics of writing in public spaces and its interactions with urban settings, politics, and architecture.

His work has been prominently displayed in both the public sphere and esteemed venues such as the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris, France during the 'Cargando. Arte urbano en la era digital’ exhibition and the Sixth Calligraphy Biennale in Sharjah Art Museum, UAE.

Nationally, Dokins has made significant contributions to the cultural landscape as the founder and president of the Sociedad Dokins for New Artistic Practices A.C., an organization dedicated to social work in the cultural sector. This initiative aims to expand the art field through new mediums and to connect different social sectors, using art as a central thread to engage diverse communities, including marginalized groups with limited economic and cultural resources.

Currently, Dokins is actively involved in merging urban art with science and technology. His latest collaborations include projects in 2023 with the Science Gallery and the Art Science and Technology Laboratory at the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus Querétaro.

DECLARACIÓN

Mi trabajo explora el poder, Relevancia, sutileza, y sombra de la escritura como acto político, así como las relaciones de poder existentes en el intercambio textual a través de elementos del lenguaje como signos y símbolos.
El tema principal de mis murales, pintada, instalaciones y proyectos site-specific es el desplazamiento del signo lingüístico en múltiples posibilidades estéticas a través del acto de escribir en relación al tiempo, contexto, e historia.
En mis proyectos, Exploro la obsolescencia de los espacios públicos, la naturaleza efímera del lenguaje así como la naturaleza hiperbólica y poético-política del acto de escribir.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025: Inscripciones. Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Ciudad de México, México

2024: Heliographies Of Memory, Sharjah Art Museum, Sixth Calligraphy Biennale, UAE.

2023: Bio-Reescrituras, Science Gallery, Feria Internacional del Libro de Monterrey, México.

Quirografías, Nodo Estudio Visual Galería, Oaxaca, México.

2023: Open Portfolio, Art Latinou Gallery, Ciudad de México, México.

2022: Comunidad, Leap Fine Art Print Studio, Viena, Austria.

2021: Ghosting Write Prophesy, Gatehouse Dalt Vila, Ibiza, España.

Lugares sagrados, Art Latinou Gallery, Ciudad de México, México.

2019: Escritos de Runuway, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, México.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025: Al borde de la noche. Casa Milán Gallery. México

2023: CARGANDO. Arte urbano en la era digital, Grand Palais Immersif – GPI, París, Francia. [Catálogo]

Atentar desde los códigos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro -MACQ, México.

2022: Atentar desde los códigos, Museo Urbano Interactivo – MUI, Puebla Mexico.

Cartografías del encierro, Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo – MAAC. Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Grabado en el ambiente, Museo del Palacio de Medicina, Ciudad de México.

WEARABLE, Mirus Gallery San Francisco and Denver, Estados Unidos.

One by One, Galería ABV, Atlanta, Estados Unidos.

2020: U N B O R D E R, Galería rebelde, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

AWARDS:

2025: Grant, Fomento a proyectos y coinversiones culturales. Convocatoria 2024, Secretaría de Cultura. México.

2023: Grant, Fondo Creativo de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología. Laboratorio Arte AC. Tec de Monterrey, México.

RESIDENCIES

2024: Sharjah Art Museum, Sixth Calligraphy Biennale. One month’s residence for Heliographies Of Memory project. UAE.

2022: Art Science & Technologies. ACT Lab. Artist in Residencie, Tec de Monterrey, Querétaro, México

PRENSA & PUBLICATIONS

-Cascone, Vincenzo, BITUME. Fundazione Federico II, Palermo, Italia. 2023.

-Arvide Cynthia, Muros Somos. 33 murales con historia. México, 2022. pp. 121, 122, 126. 2022.

CURATORIAL WORK

2025: Constelaciones urbanas. Secretaría de cultura de Nuevo León. Mexico [Curator]

2020: Look. From the Other Side. Overview of Circus and Urban Art in Mexico, CircoStrada México – France.

Mexico City [Member of the Curatorial and Editorial Committee, Visual Coordinator]

–Callegenera International Urban Art Festival, CONARTE, Monterrey [Member of Curatorial Committee]

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