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.
In the Sound of Shedding Leaves #3
Xirui Mi
This is an on-going work. I have always been concerned about the relationship and interaction between human beings and the space they live in (both natural space and urban space) . And I am always pursuing and yearning for landscape, especially natural landscape. In the course of that watching, I found that human behaviors reflected in natural space is multidimensional and contradictory. In our daily life, it is not difficult to find that we tend to destroy, ignore and control the nature or natural objects. At the same time, we also have the desire to get close to nature, including possession and dependence, and other emotional interaction states. These series of observations caused me to ponder the connection between man and nature, and to wonder intensely about the emotional and spiritual activities of man directed towards nature. I try to explore the relationship between humans and nature as well as the complex inner feelings of myself and others towards nature through the interaction between human, natural elements and natural space. Lead reading When you heard the rustling leaves in the noise of the city, whether you woke up to realise, as I did, touchable natural is always around; whether you pondered, as I did, our intricate perceptions and emotions about nature; and did you, as I did, impulsively explore our relationship with nature? Then, are you aware of that we are all drawn to nature unconsciously at some point?
This is an on-going work. I have always been concerned about the relationship and interaction between human beings and the space they live in (both natural space and urban space) . And I am always pursuing and yearning for landscape, especially natural landscape. In the course of that watching, I found that human behaviors reflected in natural space is multidimensional and contradictory. In our daily life, it is not difficult to find that we tend to destroy, ignore and control the nature or natural objects. At the same time, we also have the desire to get close to nature, including possession and dependence, and other emotional interaction states. These series of observations caused me to ponder the connection between man and nature, and to wonder intensely about the emotional and spiritual activities of man directed towards nature. I try to explore the relationship between humans and nature as well as the complex inner feelings of myself and others towards nature through the interaction between human, natural elements and natural space. Lead reading When you heard the rustling leaves in the noise of the city, whether you woke up to realise, as I did, touchable natural is always around; whether you pondered, as I did, our intricate perceptions and emotions about nature; and did you, as I did, impulsively explore our relationship with nature? Then, are you aware of that we are all drawn to nature unconsciously at some point?