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.
dystopian work-place sculpture garden
ericaferrari
a site, a shelter, a work-place - I thought of a space of production, observation and exchange formed by two levels of interaction: Solo and Platform. The Solo level will consist of a series of open niches encased in façade canvas in different arrangements. The canvas will be used as a repository of current reference material: daily impressions of social network posts such as the assimilation of instantaneous memory of relevant subjects (political, aesthetic, social). This accumulation of information will be the basis for creating work spaces within these niches. Equipped with tables, tools and molding material, in the workspaces will be encouraged the discussion and creation of possible monuments of today, with the intention of rethinking the memories dissipated by social networks to the historical cut implicit in them. The idea is to think sculptural practice through the body and the critical translation of reality into a work. The garden of sculptures produced can go up to the Platform, configuring an open exhibition space. Seminars, talks and the observation of the landscape can also take place at Platform, as part of the hole installation. As a direct reference to the work, we have the arrangement of archaeological sites, as a dystopian image of the future through the present. This is a project for a public work. It can be assemble in a park or it can developed in a long time experience inside the art studio.
a site, a shelter, a work-place - I thought of a space of production, observation and exchange formed by two levels of interaction: Solo and Platform. The Solo level will consist of a series of open niches encased in façade canvas in different arrangements. The canvas will be used as a repository of current reference material: daily impressions of social network posts such as the assimilation of instantaneous memory of relevant subjects (political, aesthetic, social). This accumulation of information will be the basis for creating work spaces within these niches. Equipped with tables, tools and molding material, in the workspaces will be encouraged the discussion and creation of possible monuments of today, with the intention of rethinking the memories dissipated by social networks to the historical cut implicit in them. The idea is to think sculptural practice through the body and the critical translation of reality into a work. The garden of sculptures produced can go up to the Platform, configuring an open exhibition space. Seminars, talks and the observation of the landscape can also take place at Platform, as part of the hole installation. As a direct reference to the work, we have the arrangement of archaeological sites, as a dystopian image of the future through the present. This is a project for a public work. It can be assemble in a park or it can developed in a long time experience inside the art studio.