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.
Think differently
Nizar Sbaih
The "Think differently" series. Artwork (painting) using disposable masks. 21 x 30 cm. The “Think Differently” project aims to highlight a new type of pollution: The COVID-19 waste. Hospitals, healthcare facilities and individuals are producing more and more waste from single-use face masks than ever before. According to environmental NGOs, waste from face masks are increasingly ending up on the streets and in the oceans, and have become more and more invisible to us. I came up with this project from witnessing many single-use face masks strewn across the streets and parks of Paris. The main idea is to give a new life to my single-use face masks by creating beautiful shapes and colours. The environment is at risk because of our actions. The challenges we face today, like climate change, really impact humans and other plant and animal species that coexist alongside us. As an artist and a human, I believe that positive impact starts with raising awareness and inspiring change...and art is one of the best tools to do that.
The "Think differently" series. Artwork (painting) using disposable masks. 21 x 30 cm. The “Think Differently” project aims to highlight a new type of pollution: The COVID-19 waste. Hospitals, healthcare facilities and individuals are producing more and more waste from single-use face masks than ever before. According to environmental NGOs, waste from face masks are increasingly ending up on the streets and in the oceans, and have become more and more invisible to us. I came up with this project from witnessing many single-use face masks strewn across the streets and parks of Paris. The main idea is to give a new life to my single-use face masks by creating beautiful shapes and colours. The environment is at risk because of our actions. The challenges we face today, like climate change, really impact humans and other plant and animal species that coexist alongside us. As an artist and a human, I believe that positive impact starts with raising awareness and inspiring change...and art is one of the best tools to do that.