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.
La vida a pesar de las fronteras (Life despite borders)
Camila Lobos Diaz
The installation is made of concrete and mosses, in which the map of Chile is drawn by different cracks casting from the streets. It is a conceptual superposition of the common fractures we find on the street’s pavement, and the lines that we as humanity had created, geopolitical borders. This work puts in relation geopolitical borders and cracks, like wounds in the territory. Lately, I have been particularly aware of the life which sometimes appears inside of them, small plants, that seem poetically strong, in relation with borders, as life resisting borders. I have added endemic mosses to the work, so it is constantly changing because of the life that is growing inside of it. Here, cracks are a place for life in contrast with what borders are in real life.
The installation is made of concrete and mosses, in which the map of Chile is drawn by different cracks casting from the streets. It is a conceptual superposition of the common fractures we find on the street’s pavement, and the lines that we as humanity had created, geopolitical borders. This work puts in relation geopolitical borders and cracks, like wounds in the territory. Lately, I have been particularly aware of the life which sometimes appears inside of them, small plants, that seem poetically strong, in relation with borders, as life resisting borders. I have added endemic mosses to the work, so it is constantly changing because of the life that is growing inside of it. Here, cracks are a place for life in contrast with what borders are in real life.