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.
Hypermorph Garden
Fuen Chin
I thought of home gardens, community gardens and botanic gardens in the future. Climate changes, such as prolonged raining season, extreme hot weather and great temperature differences causes flood, forest fires, sickness and animals lost habitats. How are man-made, artificial gardens to survive in such circumstances? Where will be the parks and gardens for children and senior citizens? I learned the concept of ‘morph’ from Muller’s morphs terms and I was particularly attracted to one of it: Hypermorph, which it means a mutation that causes an increase in normal gene function. Instead of presenting the scientifically proven images, I choose to present the 'drama' of a surreal, metaphorical hypermorphed garden.
I thought of home gardens, community gardens and botanic gardens in the future. Climate changes, such as prolonged raining season, extreme hot weather and great temperature differences causes flood, forest fires, sickness and animals lost habitats. How are man-made, artificial gardens to survive in such circumstances? Where will be the parks and gardens for children and senior citizens? I learned the concept of ‘morph’ from Muller’s morphs terms and I was particularly attracted to one of it: Hypermorph, which it means a mutation that causes an increase in normal gene function. Instead of presenting the scientifically proven images, I choose to present the 'drama' of a surreal, metaphorical hypermorphed garden.