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.
“We no longer write, we no longer hear each other,...
Iryna Vorona
“We no longer write, we no longer hear each other, we put likes”, 2019, sculpture, mixed media, 20x13x8 cm. My artwork belongs to the series “Qr-Truth”. This is a symbolic expression of the idea that the human brain has long been 75 percent not water, but information. Every day we nourish our thoughts and with them the body with information as a nutrient. By filtering the flow of information like a sponge, our brain is filled with symbols of information and emotional manipulation that exists in society. Today, the need to clean both nature from garbage and man from information is very acute. The relevance of the topic is that the consumption of information is equated to the consumption of natural resources. We were so fascinated by this pace that our brain and body became like a container in which we did not have time to sort garbage. Everything is so mixed and filled that it needs to be cleaned and rebooted. This is the message I want to convey with my works.
“We no longer write, we no longer hear each other, we put likes”, 2019, sculpture, mixed media, 20x13x8 cm. My artwork belongs to the series “Qr-Truth”. This is a symbolic expression of the idea that the human brain has long been 75 percent not water, but information. Every day we nourish our thoughts and with them the body with information as a nutrient. By filtering the flow of information like a sponge, our brain is filled with symbols of information and emotional manipulation that exists in society. Today, the need to clean both nature from garbage and man from information is very acute. The relevance of the topic is that the consumption of information is equated to the consumption of natural resources. We were so fascinated by this pace that our brain and body became like a container in which we did not have time to sort garbage. Everything is so mixed and filled that it needs to be cleaned and rebooted. This is the message I want to convey with my works.