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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Khushbakht Islam
The project I propose here will look at the trauma of abuse in a way that it moves people enough to care. Black ballpen on paper -- my medium -- to me is the perfect vehicle for what I wish to depict. Stark, dark and clear. I have always wanted to create art that shows to the world -- in particular, our world here in Pakistan -- the way the abused see their surroundings; it’s about them looking in -- or looking out at times -- at the world. In doing so, I hope to create in people a vision that looks at abuse not just as something to be pitied in passing but as something that needs to be taken head-on. The question that comes up in any debate around rape or abuse is: how do we get the various levels of our society to talk more openly about this? To me, art connects everyone -- no matter where they come from. And if the trauma suffered by a mind or a body or a soul can find expression anywhere, it is by art -- spoken, written or drawn.
The project I propose here will look at the trauma of abuse in a way that it moves people enough to care. Black ballpen on paper -- my medium -- to me is the perfect vehicle for what I wish to depict. Stark, dark and clear. I have always wanted to create art that shows to the world -- in particular, our world here in Pakistan -- the way the abused see their surroundings; it’s about them looking in -- or looking out at times -- at the world. In doing so, I hope to create in people a vision that looks at abuse not just as something to be pitied in passing but as something that needs to be taken head-on. The question that comes up in any debate around rape or abuse is: how do we get the various levels of our society to talk more openly about this? To me, art connects everyone -- no matter where they come from. And if the trauma suffered by a mind or a body or a soul can find expression anywhere, it is by art -- spoken, written or drawn.