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.
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Hiding From the Unseen Predators
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Title:
Hiding From the Unseen Predators
Hiding From the Unseen Predators
Author:
Pudji Utomo
Pudji Utomo
Description:
Like an invisible predator, the COVID-19 virus quietly infects and kills anyone regardless of their race, religion, gender, or nation. Many have become victims and many more are vulnerable to become its prey. Due to the COVID-19 terror, people around the world are frightened, panicked, and even become paranoid. Staying at home becomes a pre-eminent measure to hide and save ourselves from the unseen predators. Many questions have arisen about the origin of the predators: Is it born naturally or is it the result of myriad mutations of predators that have existed before? Are there intentionally created and accidentally broken off? Or ...? Only God Knows. Whatever it came from, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted to any aspect of human life and devasted the comfort zone of modern humans. Inspired by the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, this artwork articulates the chaotic situations through imaginary antelope figures that frantically jostling and huddling to find safe shelter from the unseen predators. Moreover, I utilize and re-use the cigarette's aluminum foil packaging left-over (locally known as "grenjeng") as the primary materials for the antelope figure. Should be noted, Antelope is the endangered mammals which have similar nature with the human: they live in community and interacts socially. Moreover, antelope is widely spread across the globe that in turn makes the animal as the global representation. Thus, I want to document its existence visually in my artwork as well as to become a medium in responding to the global problem of trash. Meanwhile, as the recycle art, I try to recycle “grenjeng”. Should be noted, the cigarette's aluminium foil packaging left-over is one of the un-degradable trash which cannot easily decompose in soil or be burnt. Through this artwork, I propose that the artist also have a responsibility for the environmental issue around them. They could contribute more by doing little things such as re-use and re-cycle the trash around them into meaningful fine artworks: love our country, love our environment, and love our nature.
Like an invisible predator, the COVID-19 virus quietly infects and kills anyone regardless of their race, religion, gender, or nation. Many have become victims and many more are vulnerable to become its prey. Due to the COVID-19 terror, people around the world are frightened, panicked, and even become paranoid. Staying at home becomes a pre-eminent measure to hide and save ourselves from the unseen predators. Many questions have arisen about the origin of the predators: Is it born naturally or is it the result of myriad mutations of predators that have existed before? Are there intentionally created and accidentally broken off? Or ...? Only God Knows. Whatever it came from, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted to any aspect of human life and devasted the comfort zone of modern humans. Inspired by the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, this artwork articulates the chaotic situations through imaginary antelope figures that frantically jostling and huddling to find safe shelter from the unseen predators. Moreover, I utilize and re-use the cigarette's aluminum foil packaging left-over (locally known as "grenjeng") as the primary materials for the antelope figure. Should be noted, Antelope is the endangered mammals which have similar nature with the human: they live in community and interacts socially. Moreover, antelope is widely spread across the globe that in turn makes the animal as the global representation. Thus, I want to document its existence visually in my artwork as well as to become a medium in responding to the global problem of trash. Meanwhile, as the recycle art, I try to recycle “grenjeng”. Should be noted, the cigarette's aluminium foil packaging left-over is one of the un-degradable trash which cannot easily decompose in soil or be burnt. Through this artwork, I propose that the artist also have a responsibility for the environmental issue around them. They could contribute more by doing little things such as re-use and re-cycle the trash around them into meaningful fine artworks: love our country, love our environment, and love our nature.
Description:
Like an invisible predator, the COVID-19 virus quietly infects and kills anyone regardless of their race, religion, gender, or nation. Many have become victims and many more are vulnerable to become its prey. Due to the COVID-19 terror, people around the world are frightened, panicked, and even become paranoid. Staying at home becomes a pre-eminent measure to hide and save ourselves from the unseen predators. Many questions have arisen about the origin of the predators: Is it born naturally or is it the result of myriad mutations of predators that have existed before? Are there intentionally created and accidentally broken off? Or ...? Only God Knows. Whatever it came from, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted to any aspect of human life and devasted the comfort zone of modern humans. Inspired by the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, this artwork articulates the chaotic situations through imaginary antelope figures that frantically jostling and huddling to find safe shelter from the unseen predators. Moreover, I utilize and re-use the cigarette's aluminum foil packaging left-over (locally known as "grenjeng") as the primary materials for the antelope figure. Should be noted, Antelope is the endangered mammals which have similar nature with the human: they live in community and interacts socially. Moreover, antelope is widely spread across the globe that in turn makes the animal as the global representation. Thus, I want to document its existence visually in my artwork as well as to become a medium in responding to the global problem of trash. Meanwhile, as the recycle art, I try to recycle “grenjeng”. Should be noted, the cigarette's aluminium foil packaging left-over is one of the un-degradable trash which cannot easily decompose in soil or be burnt. Through this artwork, I propose that the artist also have a responsibility for the environmental issue around them. They could contribute more by doing little things such as re-use and re-cycle the trash around them into meaningful fine artworks: love our country, love our environment, and love our nature.
Like an invisible predator, the COVID-19 virus quietly infects and kills anyone regardless of their race, religion, gender, or nation. Many have become victims and many more are vulnerable to become its prey. Due to the COVID-19 terror, people around the world are frightened, panicked, and even become paranoid. Staying at home becomes a pre-eminent measure to hide and save ourselves from the unseen predators. Many questions have arisen about the origin of the predators: Is it born naturally or is it the result of myriad mutations of predators that have existed before? Are there intentionally created and accidentally broken off? Or ...? Only God Knows. Whatever it came from, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted to any aspect of human life and devasted the comfort zone of modern humans. Inspired by the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, this artwork articulates the chaotic situations through imaginary antelope figures that frantically jostling and huddling to find safe shelter from the unseen predators. Moreover, I utilize and re-use the cigarette's aluminum foil packaging left-over (locally known as "grenjeng") as the primary materials for the antelope figure. Should be noted, Antelope is the endangered mammals which have similar nature with the human: they live in community and interacts socially. Moreover, antelope is widely spread across the globe that in turn makes the animal as the global representation. Thus, I want to document its existence visually in my artwork as well as to become a medium in responding to the global problem of trash. Meanwhile, as the recycle art, I try to recycle “grenjeng”. Should be noted, the cigarette's aluminium foil packaging left-over is one of the un-degradable trash which cannot easily decompose in soil or be burnt. Through this artwork, I propose that the artist also have a responsibility for the environmental issue around them. They could contribute more by doing little things such as re-use and re-cycle the trash around them into meaningful fine artworks: love our country, love our environment, and love our nature.