Over the past months, Saïd Kinos has been working on The GRIT Paintings, a new series that moves away from the clean, almost clinical aesthetic that defined much of his recent work. Instead, it brings back the raw energy of the street: layered posters, traces of graffiti, and the textures of the city.
For each piece, he collected street posters and billboard material as a base, building on them with hand-painted compositions in acrylics and house paint, detailed with pencil and sealed in epoxy resin. Even the frames are handmade, adding a personal and tactile edge to the works.
This series marks a new chapter in his practice, full of colour, texture, and the kind of imperfection that feels exactly right.