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.
Inverted kingdoms
BarbaraNati
Towering pillars of vegetation rise to the sky;tangled trunks,branches,creepers and lianas intertwine creating horizontal clusters. Concrete islands grow in the middle of an endless grassland that overlays the ground.The kingdoms have reversed, plants replace engineering work, trees create flyovers and bridges, meadows shape roads and roundabouts. By building majestic compositions Barbara Nati draws the viewer’s attention with a direct focus, using very simple visual contrasts: The tragic inequality between the overflowing manmade structures made of concrete and steel versus the lonesome elements dedicated to nature. This body of work is a stark portrait of the infringement of present times whilst outlining a new enhanced perspective for the future. Every genre of artists has a different audience and to mobilise all of them on a platform like this creates noise and buzz which is what helps in getting proposals across to the lawmakers. In the last ten years I have been investigating alternative visions regarding humankind’s place on earth through my entire production. Most humans, as a matter of fact, have lost the human–nature symbiotic connection and this is commonly believed to be a result of the effects of industrialised culture Media art accelerates the process through which culture has already been recognised as the necessary infrastructure to manage the increasing complexity of our planet.
Towering pillars of vegetation rise to the sky;tangled trunks,branches,creepers and lianas intertwine creating horizontal clusters. Concrete islands grow in the middle of an endless grassland that overlays the ground.The kingdoms have reversed, plants replace engineering work, trees create flyovers and bridges, meadows shape roads and roundabouts. By building majestic compositions Barbara Nati draws the viewer’s attention with a direct focus, using very simple visual contrasts: The tragic inequality between the overflowing manmade structures made of concrete and steel versus the lonesome elements dedicated to nature. This body of work is a stark portrait of the infringement of present times whilst outlining a new enhanced perspective for the future. Every genre of artists has a different audience and to mobilise all of them on a platform like this creates noise and buzz which is what helps in getting proposals across to the lawmakers. In the last ten years I have been investigating alternative visions regarding humankind’s place on earth through my entire production. Most humans, as a matter of fact, have lost the human–nature symbiotic connection and this is commonly believed to be a result of the effects of industrialised culture Media art accelerates the process through which culture has already been recognised as the necessary infrastructure to manage the increasing complexity of our planet.