Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
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Confinement 4
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Title:
Confinement 4
Confinement 4
Author:
egloff
egloff
Description:
Let's get back in touch with our ecosystem - whether we like it or not we are part of it, this is the subject of this work. I summoned all my senses by the presence of a part of the body on my canvas. The one that is closest in contact with the Earth. These tiptoe legs strive to navigate life with delicacy so as not to upset the existing balance too much. In addition, by acting in this way, the energizing forces of Nature make the qualities of humility and discretion flourish in us. As long as we see the living as a means and not as an end, nothing will change. Let us abandon our attitudes which go against respect for the living. Apologies for all the mistakes and mistreatment my generation inflicted on nature! May all this not augur an uncertain future for the new or younger generations. Let's preserve the beauties of nature and let the wonder remain in the future. Let's spy on our excesses, flush out our flaws, track down our vulnerabilities. Then let us ask ourselves the question of what we really want. Then the solutions to get there will begin to manifest and an entrepreneurial joy will animate our actions, because our "feet will have wings"! Of course, things can remain as they are, especially if our leaders adopt authoritarian policies to keep them on the strong and persistent advice of those who benefit from this context. But I began to hope that populations would branch off, driven by ecological imperatives and the satisfaction of working for collective and no longer individual needs. So imagine if there are many, very many, and even very, many many of us taking such a path! It is unstoppable! acrylic and Indian ink on canvas (80x137,5cm) more information about this collection here : http://www.veronique-egloff.com/2020-2021.html
Let's get back in touch with our ecosystem - whether we like it or not we are part of it, this is the subject of this work. I summoned all my senses by the presence of a part of the body on my canvas. The one that is closest in contact with the Earth. These tiptoe legs strive to navigate life with delicacy so as not to upset the existing balance too much. In addition, by acting in this way, the energizing forces of Nature make the qualities of humility and discretion flourish in us. As long as we see the living as a means and not as an end, nothing will change. Let us abandon our attitudes which go against respect for the living. Apologies for all the mistakes and mistreatment my generation inflicted on nature! May all this not augur an uncertain future for the new or younger generations. Let's preserve the beauties of nature and let the wonder remain in the future. Let's spy on our excesses, flush out our flaws, track down our vulnerabilities. Then let us ask ourselves the question of what we really want. Then the solutions to get there will begin to manifest and an entrepreneurial joy will animate our actions, because our "feet will have wings"! Of course, things can remain as they are, especially if our leaders adopt authoritarian policies to keep them on the strong and persistent advice of those who benefit from this context. But I began to hope that populations would branch off, driven by ecological imperatives and the satisfaction of working for collective and no longer individual needs. So imagine if there are many, very many, and even very, many many of us taking such a path! It is unstoppable! acrylic and Indian ink on canvas (80x137,5cm) more information about this collection here : http://www.veronique-egloff.com/2020-2021.html
Description:
Let's get back in touch with our ecosystem - whether we like it or not we are part of it, this is the subject of this work. I summoned all my senses by the presence of a part of the body on my canvas. The one that is closest in contact with the Earth. These tiptoe legs strive to navigate life with delicacy so as not to upset the existing balance too much. In addition, by acting in this way, the energizing forces of Nature make the qualities of humility and discretion flourish in us. As long as we see the living as a means and not as an end, nothing will change. Let us abandon our attitudes which go against respect for the living. Apologies for all the mistakes and mistreatment my generation inflicted on nature! May all this not augur an uncertain future for the new or younger generations. Let's preserve the beauties of nature and let the wonder remain in the future. Let's spy on our excesses, flush out our flaws, track down our vulnerabilities. Then let us ask ourselves the question of what we really want. Then the solutions to get there will begin to manifest and an entrepreneurial joy will animate our actions, because our "feet will have wings"! Of course, things can remain as they are, especially if our leaders adopt authoritarian policies to keep them on the strong and persistent advice of those who benefit from this context. But I began to hope that populations would branch off, driven by ecological imperatives and the satisfaction of working for collective and no longer individual needs. So imagine if there are many, very many, and even very, many many of us taking such a path! It is unstoppable! acrylic and Indian ink on canvas (80x137,5cm) more information about this collection here : http://www.veronique-egloff.com/2020-2021.html
Let's get back in touch with our ecosystem - whether we like it or not we are part of it, this is the subject of this work. I summoned all my senses by the presence of a part of the body on my canvas. The one that is closest in contact with the Earth. These tiptoe legs strive to navigate life with delicacy so as not to upset the existing balance too much. In addition, by acting in this way, the energizing forces of Nature make the qualities of humility and discretion flourish in us. As long as we see the living as a means and not as an end, nothing will change. Let us abandon our attitudes which go against respect for the living. Apologies for all the mistakes and mistreatment my generation inflicted on nature! May all this not augur an uncertain future for the new or younger generations. Let's preserve the beauties of nature and let the wonder remain in the future. Let's spy on our excesses, flush out our flaws, track down our vulnerabilities. Then let us ask ourselves the question of what we really want. Then the solutions to get there will begin to manifest and an entrepreneurial joy will animate our actions, because our "feet will have wings"! Of course, things can remain as they are, especially if our leaders adopt authoritarian policies to keep them on the strong and persistent advice of those who benefit from this context. But I began to hope that populations would branch off, driven by ecological imperatives and the satisfaction of working for collective and no longer individual needs. So imagine if there are many, very many, and even very, many many of us taking such a path! It is unstoppable! acrylic and Indian ink on canvas (80x137,5cm) more information about this collection here : http://www.veronique-egloff.com/2020-2021.html