Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many powerful contributions from artists across the globe. The selected works reflect the diversity of contemporary social art practices and address urgent issues such as climate and water crises, social and economic inequality, migration, conflict, discrimination, and the protection of human and more-than-human life.
Below you will find the submissions from the edition of 2024/2025 that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and supports dialogue around their themes; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your inspiring and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping the Social Art Award 2025.
Marine and terrestrial romance stories
Dhanny danot Sanjaya
Life on land and in the ocean is bound up in a very strong way. In every wave that rolls on the beach, the ocean flows into the land. In every river that flows into the ocean, trees, land, water and wildlife are connected. In the last 4 years, i'm interested in themes related to the complex interactions between humans and nature, showing the struggle for power, balance, and sustainability. On several occasions I have done personal research in coastal areas in Tangerang, Indonesia. In each of these activities, I always find various types of waste scattered on the coastline. Various types of plastic, styrofoam, diapers, televisions, ropes, light bulbs, lighters, incense, toothpaste, toothbrushes, glass bottles and other types. Some beaches also leave dead fish carcasses among the waste we produce. The problems in our oceans also originate from our problems on the mainland. One of them is about the failure of our waste management system on land, that less than 10% of waste in Indonesia is recycled. These selected documentary photos obtained during my research, which are then manipulated using the lenticular print technique, I manipulated the waste findings by replacing them with more natural things (such as leaves, flowers, wood,etc) to build a better narrative about marine and terrestrial romance stories. (see detail artwork : https://danot.net/portfolio/marine-and-terrestrial-romance-stories/)
Life on land and in the ocean is bound up in a very strong way. In every wave that rolls on the beach, the ocean flows into the land. In every river that flows into the ocean, trees, land, water and wildlife are connected. In the last 4 years, i'm interested in themes related to the complex interactions between humans and nature, showing the struggle for power, balance, and sustainability. On several occasions I have done personal research in coastal areas in Tangerang, Indonesia. In each of these activities, I always find various types of waste scattered on the coastline. Various types of plastic, styrofoam, diapers, televisions, ropes, light bulbs, lighters, incense, toothpaste, toothbrushes, glass bottles and other types. Some beaches also leave dead fish carcasses among the waste we produce. The problems in our oceans also originate from our problems on the mainland. One of them is about the failure of our waste management system on land, that less than 10% of waste in Indonesia is recycled. These selected documentary photos obtained during my research, which are then manipulated using the lenticular print technique, I manipulated the waste findings by replacing them with more natural things (such as leaves, flowers, wood,etc) to build a better narrative about marine and terrestrial romance stories. (see detail artwork : https://danot.net/portfolio/marine-and-terrestrial-romance-stories/)