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.
Samaumas
Juliana Brandao Yamazawa
The sculpture refers to the great Amazonian tree, whose name means “tree of life” or “stairway to heaven”. The indigenous people consider her as the “mother” of all trees. The pieces are arranged in a circle, as if each tree were a priestess of the forest, and in a circle of strength, they become one - the mother of all. The green quartz stone represents the “heart” of each tree and carries its healing and regenerative power, the metal represents the industrialization and mechanization of living beings. With the constant abuses of man against nature, is it necessary for it to stand up and react? Or like the Amazonian “Samaumeira” that irrigate the soil and is capable of support other animals, will human beings be able to unite in a great force and will finally understand that we are all one?
The sculpture refers to the great Amazonian tree, whose name means “tree of life” or “stairway to heaven”. The indigenous people consider her as the “mother” of all trees. The pieces are arranged in a circle, as if each tree were a priestess of the forest, and in a circle of strength, they become one - the mother of all. The green quartz stone represents the “heart” of each tree and carries its healing and regenerative power, the metal represents the industrialization and mechanization of living beings. With the constant abuses of man against nature, is it necessary for it to stand up and react? Or like the Amazonian “Samaumeira” that irrigate the soil and is capable of support other animals, will human beings be able to unite in a great force and will finally understand that we are all one?