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.
Complementaridade (Complementarity), 2019
Lia Nasser
Video, 4'22'' . Lia Nasser, 2019. The notion of complementarity has become an essential part of the way in which physicists think of nature. The current concept of complementarity is present in ancient Chinese thought, as the opposites Yin and Yang, which are related in a complementary way forming a unity. In this work, death and life are complementarily related. The beetles were found on the trail of the waterfall of Pedra Lisa, in the Atlantic Forest of São Sebastião-SP. They were trampled. In the studio, while drawing them, I realized that one of them was alive, dying. I filmed the powerful image. The next day they were being eaten by ants. A sequence of facts that showed the interconnections of matter in constant movement in space, death and life in the renewal of forms. We are nature. https://www.lianasser.com/videos
Video, 4'22'' . Lia Nasser, 2019. The notion of complementarity has become an essential part of the way in which physicists think of nature. The current concept of complementarity is present in ancient Chinese thought, as the opposites Yin and Yang, which are related in a complementary way forming a unity. In this work, death and life are complementarily related. The beetles were found on the trail of the waterfall of Pedra Lisa, in the Atlantic Forest of São Sebastião-SP. They were trampled. In the studio, while drawing them, I realized that one of them was alive, dying. I filmed the powerful image. The next day they were being eaten by ants. A sequence of facts that showed the interconnections of matter in constant movement in space, death and life in the renewal of forms. We are nature. https://www.lianasser.com/videos