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.
Untitled
soraya kolle
Everything that is waste and leftovers, for me it is the driving force, gestural, manual, and transformative. The nature of Assemblages comes from an archeological and intuitive process. The work is born and emerges from the collection of time-worn materials, mainly stacked wood waiting for incineration The materials are selected and organized in groups – I feel the textures, colors, softness/rigidity, smells, roughness, shapes, sizes... The material culture, its production, consumption and disposal are the thematic thread of my artwork, providing artistic and aesthetic visibility. Fragments of materials left behind, abandoned along the human trajectory, pulsing inside me, sensory reframing and creative power. I see them as fragments of feelings, healing fragments. Under a careful, thorough and sensitive eye, cuts, grooves and cracks reveal material wounds crying out for liberation, personification, and revitalization. The sewing with the cold and hard wire, the melting with hot and soft wax, stopping the cracks with hinges, acting in the artwork like a resistance force. The poetic of the artwork seeks to express, by the driving force of the art, how the material elements can become active, agents and present reflections about today’s most urgent issues in aesthetic-formal arrangements, such as building an ecological awareness and pro-life. The purpose of my artwork is to challenge the viewer’s eye and raise questions about painful dualities such as wealth/poverty, beautiful/ugly, construction/destruction, new/old, useful/useless.
Everything that is waste and leftovers, for me it is the driving force, gestural, manual, and transformative. The nature of Assemblages comes from an archeological and intuitive process. The work is born and emerges from the collection of time-worn materials, mainly stacked wood waiting for incineration The materials are selected and organized in groups – I feel the textures, colors, softness/rigidity, smells, roughness, shapes, sizes... The material culture, its production, consumption and disposal are the thematic thread of my artwork, providing artistic and aesthetic visibility. Fragments of materials left behind, abandoned along the human trajectory, pulsing inside me, sensory reframing and creative power. I see them as fragments of feelings, healing fragments. Under a careful, thorough and sensitive eye, cuts, grooves and cracks reveal material wounds crying out for liberation, personification, and revitalization. The sewing with the cold and hard wire, the melting with hot and soft wax, stopping the cracks with hinges, acting in the artwork like a resistance force. The poetic of the artwork seeks to express, by the driving force of the art, how the material elements can become active, agents and present reflections about today’s most urgent issues in aesthetic-formal arrangements, such as building an ecological awareness and pro-life. The purpose of my artwork is to challenge the viewer’s eye and raise questions about painful dualities such as wealth/poverty, beautiful/ugly, construction/destruction, new/old, useful/useless.