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.
Fruits of the Forest
Paul Tuppeny
The project signposts a new self-identity for our species within the world. Through re-appropriated signs, the work urges a re-appraisal of our relationship with nature. The forest floor is adopted as symbol of our primal orientation, as the plane from which life pushes forth and to which it finally returns. The signs carry images of a forest floor and blue sky. The lower portions have head shape openings allowing viewers to behold themselves (and others) against the forest floor context. When we view ourselves against the forest floor, our vulnerability becomes palpable once more.
The project signposts a new self-identity for our species within the world. Through re-appropriated signs, the work urges a re-appraisal of our relationship with nature. The forest floor is adopted as symbol of our primal orientation, as the plane from which life pushes forth and to which it finally returns. The signs carry images of a forest floor and blue sky. The lower portions have head shape openings allowing viewers to behold themselves (and others) against the forest floor context. When we view ourselves against the forest floor, our vulnerability becomes palpable once more.