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.
Spine
Ben Stephenson and Melissa Aristizabal
During this past year we have seen the world united strong over a collective goal and also the potential fragility of each individual human being. This sculpture alludes to the vertebrae and discs of the spine and just like the pieces in this sculpture which alone serve little purpose and may be weak they can also be strong when assembled together. The spine forms the central column in many living beings, providing connection and vital life-force. The proposed sculpture is made in "Rammed Earth" one of the oldest methods of construction since 4400 BC used globally which consists of compacting different types of earth. The change of colour is due to the abundance of iron/ amount of organic matter/ proportions of mineral grades among others. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and the destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which sickness passes into health, age into you, death into life. Without proper care we cannot do community, for without proper care we cannot have life - a text by Wendell Berry that inspired us to work with this technique.
During this past year we have seen the world united strong over a collective goal and also the potential fragility of each individual human being. This sculpture alludes to the vertebrae and discs of the spine and just like the pieces in this sculpture which alone serve little purpose and may be weak they can also be strong when assembled together. The spine forms the central column in many living beings, providing connection and vital life-force. The proposed sculpture is made in "Rammed Earth" one of the oldest methods of construction since 4400 BC used globally which consists of compacting different types of earth. The change of colour is due to the abundance of iron/ amount of organic matter/ proportions of mineral grades among others. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and the destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which sickness passes into health, age into you, death into life. Without proper care we cannot do community, for without proper care we cannot have life - a text by Wendell Berry that inspired us to work with this technique.