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.
Routes 2017
Maryda Geraci
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.
The work is part of a theme that I started a few years ago. The subjects represented in this series bring together my stylistic research on the botanical theme. It is a personal interpretation of the plant elements, behind the representation of which a sort of my story is always reflected. I started painting these "green" themes, first interpreting plants and flowers in their entirety, alternating the mediums that I usually use as an expressive medium: acrylic and charcoal. Subsequently I concentrated on the surfaces, elaborating a more abstract and less figurative visual discourse, and I concentrated on the gradually less dense color and on the charcoal chiaroscuro. The complex branching of the vegetable ribs that I represent gave me the opportunity to enter a conceptual visual discourse, where labyrinths and vegetable textures become similes of roads and life paths to explore, of respiratory systems or geographical maps, in which to get lost or from which to cross. . Mine is an invitation to take an inner journey to reflect how much beings and the world we live in are connected. But also a reflection on our desire for freedom: without borders, without a sense of belonging, freedom becomes rootless and as nature teaches us, a plant without roots lives in fragility and instability. Thus for humanity the transition between identity and difference, between the inside and the outside that the border allows, represents an interior enrichment necessary for a free and peaceful growth.