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.
Boiunas
Juliana Brandao Yamazawa
> Incorporating the local imaginary into a physical form the sculptures bring an ancient folk tale that may still be current. > Boiúna - the Big Snake with a shiny body that inhabits the depths of the rivers of the Amazon - transforms, in this reading, in three great "amulets" or "jewels". These pieces invite us to rescue our roots, contact with the land and its composition. The elements presented invite us to reflect on ourselves: How can we protect ourselves in the midst of so much technological "energy"? How to live closer to the land? How to maintain good family connections? How to rescue the roots and look inside?
> Incorporating the local imaginary into a physical form the sculptures bring an ancient folk tale that may still be current. > Boiúna - the Big Snake with a shiny body that inhabits the depths of the rivers of the Amazon - transforms, in this reading, in three great "amulets" or "jewels". These pieces invite us to rescue our roots, contact with the land and its composition. The elements presented invite us to reflect on ourselves: How can we protect ourselves in the midst of so much technological "energy"? How to live closer to the land? How to maintain good family connections? How to rescue the roots and look inside?