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.
Imaginary Territories
Luisa Prestes
In 2019 I took a dive in the language of painting that originated the series called Imaginary Territories in which I develop a slow compositional process, trying to balance geometric solids of intense colors, at the end overlapped by the representation of a plant popularly known by its medicinal properties. The motivation behind these works is, through the structure of the geometric shapes that suggest tridimensional spaces, to create a symbolic space of sustainability, cure and respect to the subjectivities sensible to the forces and forms of nature. The creation of spaces of resistance through natural and ancestral knowledge. The valorization of forms of existence beyond the rationality of the contemporary capitalist world. This series of paintings unfolded other experiments of breathing spaces apart from the daily life ruled by the logic of production. Recently I’ve been dismantling these solids into more fluid compositions where I still flirt with the notion of symbolic spaces, until getting to the total dilution of the form. Those are paintings such as ‘Crazy Horse Dreams its Destiny’ and ‘I’ll go just like Crazy Horse’. Paintings created from the intersection of the narrative of a premonitory dream of a young Lakota warrior who, in the XIX century, fought to preserve the life of his people. Emphasizing once more the fundamentality of preserving the intuitive ancestral knowledge for a fulfilled and healthy life. Art is a safe space for experimenting our utopies, connecting people with similar languages and dreams. That alone helps us in the imagining our future. Hopefully a more natural and fair one.
In 2019 I took a dive in the language of painting that originated the series called Imaginary Territories in which I develop a slow compositional process, trying to balance geometric solids of intense colors, at the end overlapped by the representation of a plant popularly known by its medicinal properties. The motivation behind these works is, through the structure of the geometric shapes that suggest tridimensional spaces, to create a symbolic space of sustainability, cure and respect to the subjectivities sensible to the forces and forms of nature. The creation of spaces of resistance through natural and ancestral knowledge. The valorization of forms of existence beyond the rationality of the contemporary capitalist world. This series of paintings unfolded other experiments of breathing spaces apart from the daily life ruled by the logic of production. Recently I’ve been dismantling these solids into more fluid compositions where I still flirt with the notion of symbolic spaces, until getting to the total dilution of the form. Those are paintings such as ‘Crazy Horse Dreams its Destiny’ and ‘I’ll go just like Crazy Horse’. Paintings created from the intersection of the narrative of a premonitory dream of a young Lakota warrior who, in the XIX century, fought to preserve the life of his people. Emphasizing once more the fundamentality of preserving the intuitive ancestral knowledge for a fulfilled and healthy life. Art is a safe space for experimenting our utopies, connecting people with similar languages and dreams. That alone helps us in the imagining our future. Hopefully a more natural and fair one.