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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Philsoo Heo
I observe the relationship between humans and nature and try to see humans from the perspective of nature and not from a human-centered attitude. I usually use soil for work and there is always nature around me. All the trees inspired me to live in this foreign country. The trees like, the teacher who taught me when I arrived at this strange land. I feel and learn the vitality of trees and the will to live. As I learned the attitude of life through trees, I felt that trees were not just something but a life. This allowed me to think about ecological thinking. I just don't see trees as our use. There is a lot of firewood around me and also a lot of cut trees. It made me feel some pain and that inspired me. This work was intended to show that trees are no different from humans. The cut-off tree shows the human spine. Two factors play an important role in the lives of life. In other words, the role of support is destroyed and the meaning is lost. Trees and humans co-exist, and the destruction of trees and nature can show the destruction of humans. I don't think the goals of life between trees and human beings are very different. It is a healthy life and growth. I want the audience to look back on nature through their relationship.
I observe the relationship between humans and nature and try to see humans from the perspective of nature and not from a human-centered attitude. I usually use soil for work and there is always nature around me. All the trees inspired me to live in this foreign country. The trees like, the teacher who taught me when I arrived at this strange land. I feel and learn the vitality of trees and the will to live. As I learned the attitude of life through trees, I felt that trees were not just something but a life. This allowed me to think about ecological thinking. I just don't see trees as our use. There is a lot of firewood around me and also a lot of cut trees. It made me feel some pain and that inspired me. This work was intended to show that trees are no different from humans. The cut-off tree shows the human spine. Two factors play an important role in the lives of life. In other words, the role of support is destroyed and the meaning is lost. Trees and humans co-exist, and the destruction of trees and nature can show the destruction of humans. I don't think the goals of life between trees and human beings are very different. It is a healthy life and growth. I want the audience to look back on nature through their relationship.