Heliographies of Memory: giant calligraphic text written with light

Written with light, the words disappear as soon as they were suggested by the moves of the calligrapher, invisible to the naked eye they just can be captured by a process of long-exposure photography that reveals what happened, even though no one could see it.

Through these ephemeral interventions with light calligraphy, Dokins captures the invisible, acting on air and featuring iconic places: historic sites, public plazas, monuments, bulwarks – abandoned spaces become re-signification spaces.

Using the Netherlands as his base, the works as part of ‘Inscription and Erasure’ were shot in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Heerlen and Arnhem.

Dokins lives and works in Mexico City. His cultural practice takes on contemporary art production, research and cultural management. He has put on curatorial projects related to urban arts and a number of political issues happening in his country.

For Dokins, every experience is a trace, a psychic impression that creates a texture in our symbolic universe. In that sense, calligraphy and graffiti aren't just on paper and ink, on the walls and spray, but on every event of our existence. Discover more at www.saidokins.com.