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.
Becoming Tree II
Shivangi Ladha
The work Becoming Tree is inspired by my visit to Piplantri, a village in Rajasthan. The village has a unique tradition of planting 111 trees for every female child born. The work questions the true identity of our beloved human race. The self-portrait in the work is not simply a depiction of my being or my sole experiences, but represents the collective voice of a crowd, that is seeking to rise, become, transcend to a state or a place where one is appreciated just the way they are, like trees which are not differentiated by us on the basis of gender, sexuality, race etc.
The work Becoming Tree is inspired by my visit to Piplantri, a village in Rajasthan. The village has a unique tradition of planting 111 trees for every female child born. The work questions the true identity of our beloved human race. The self-portrait in the work is not simply a depiction of my being or my sole experiences, but represents the collective voice of a crowd, that is seeking to rise, become, transcend to a state or a place where one is appreciated just the way they are, like trees which are not differentiated by us on the basis of gender, sexuality, race etc.