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.
Wings of Reality
Reka Ritt Laklia
'Wings Of Reality' is a 2D video format of a VR short film. The movement of the horizon makes the visual landscape flapping like two wings. Right wing the 'home' and left wing the 'environment'. The artist in the centre is performing as her mother. The camera is at the viewpoint of her childhood self, set up on an empty swing. It recorded a heavy snowfall in April, a never before experienced weather anomaly that created an apocalyptic scene. As road accidents were escalating, the sirens of ambulances are echoing through the city. The film is uncanny, juxtaposing the surreal and the mundane.
'Wings Of Reality' is a 2D video format of a VR short film. The movement of the horizon makes the visual landscape flapping like two wings. Right wing the 'home' and left wing the 'environment'. The artist in the centre is performing as her mother. The camera is at the viewpoint of her childhood self, set up on an empty swing. It recorded a heavy snowfall in April, a never before experienced weather anomaly that created an apocalyptic scene. As road accidents were escalating, the sirens of ambulances are echoing through the city. The film is uncanny, juxtaposing the surreal and the mundane.