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.
Riches to Rags
Eloise Dethier-Eaton
I like to draw upon the decorative to reflect on the environmental challenges we face today and to examine the various notions of aesthetic, material, economic and emotional value we attribute to objects. ‘Riches to Rags’ explores the harmful impacts of fast-fashion, whereby mountains of mass-produced items of clothing, from the cheap stuff to luxury goods, are discarded as they lose their economic value and turned into trash destined for landfill. By using visual means, I want to draw attention to the ways in which the act of discarding these items can turn them from ‘pretty’ to ‘ugly’ in an instant.
I like to draw upon the decorative to reflect on the environmental challenges we face today and to examine the various notions of aesthetic, material, economic and emotional value we attribute to objects. ‘Riches to Rags’ explores the harmful impacts of fast-fashion, whereby mountains of mass-produced items of clothing, from the cheap stuff to luxury goods, are discarded as they lose their economic value and turned into trash destined for landfill. By using visual means, I want to draw attention to the ways in which the act of discarding these items can turn them from ‘pretty’ to ‘ugly’ in an instant.