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.
Ra: A Contemporary Celebration
Jennifer Weston
The Sun is a powerful collaborator of energy production. Named Helios, Ra, Apollo and revered for centuries in ancient worlds for its life-giving rays, we once again applaud its heat and power. Now captured to enhance modern civilization via solar photovoltaic panels to generate clean electricity to power industrial DC motors to well-insulated cold storage appliances (fridge/freezer). The Earth circles the Sun giving light and dark to heat and not heat the panels. The daylight thermal is stored in the soil nearby to keep buildings warm and water hot. A contemporary celebration.
The Sun is a powerful collaborator of energy production. Named Helios, Ra, Apollo and revered for centuries in ancient worlds for its life-giving rays, we once again applaud its heat and power. Now captured to enhance modern civilization via solar photovoltaic panels to generate clean electricity to power industrial DC motors to well-insulated cold storage appliances (fridge/freezer). The Earth circles the Sun giving light and dark to heat and not heat the panels. The daylight thermal is stored in the soil nearby to keep buildings warm and water hot. A contemporary celebration.