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.
Planet ritual
Ismail Odetola
I will be inquiring into the natural world and its design, which I think is the best and the only way to go. By default, we should know the material things are not sustainable but by the wisdom which we stand for we should be able to create a balance since materiality is almost entirely inevitable. My work which is prepared with a newspaper as the background because of its universality, leaves from different trees and plants as the foreground and a calabash at the center filled with water. This is world as it is and this is what the world needs to be. To let nature serve it purposed so we human can exist within it and imitate its ritual.
I will be inquiring into the natural world and its design, which I think is the best and the only way to go. By default, we should know the material things are not sustainable but by the wisdom which we stand for we should be able to create a balance since materiality is almost entirely inevitable. My work which is prepared with a newspaper as the background because of its universality, leaves from different trees and plants as the foreground and a calabash at the center filled with water. This is world as it is and this is what the world needs to be. To let nature serve it purposed so we human can exist within it and imitate its ritual.