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.
White Butterflies
Milan Rai
I proposed the city agencies situate art in the public domain which was simply denied. Then, I designed a butterfly cut-out and spread thousands of paper cut butterflies as my personal response and to push the boundaries of what art is. I covered over 1200 trees with paper butterflies that were § the road expansion and shared those images via social media which grew into a peaceful protest. As this project began to spread globally, this evolution around my work woken me up to my new roles and priorities and as an artist to address socio-political and environmental matter more directly in my art
I proposed the city agencies situate art in the public domain which was simply denied. Then, I designed a butterfly cut-out and spread thousands of paper cut butterflies as my personal response and to push the boundaries of what art is. I covered over 1200 trees with paper butterflies that were § the road expansion and shared those images via social media which grew into a peaceful protest. As this project began to spread globally, this evolution around my work woken me up to my new roles and priorities and as an artist to address socio-political and environmental matter more directly in my art