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.
Looking For My Daughters
Sonia Lenzi
Ever since they started becoming independent, I have tried to re-establish a relationship with my daughters, and this desire has been projected on young women I met along the Regent’s Canal in London. I began to imagine what all the changes they will inevitably face in their lives will mean. Water and canals are metaphors for life, as well as objects and signs found along my route. We live in a particular era of uncertainty and transition. Not only will these girls soon become adults, but difficult times await them: climate change, pandemics, sexism, discrimination, political and economic instability.
Ever since they started becoming independent, I have tried to re-establish a relationship with my daughters, and this desire has been projected on young women I met along the Regent’s Canal in London. I began to imagine what all the changes they will inevitably face in their lives will mean. Water and canals are metaphors for life, as well as objects and signs found along my route. We live in a particular era of uncertainty and transition. Not only will these girls soon become adults, but difficult times await them: climate change, pandemics, sexism, discrimination, political and economic instability.