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.
Memorias fragmentadas/ Fragmented memories
Diana Cortes Hernandez
The installation Fragmented Memories evokes the traces of what once inhabited, the presence, the painful absence of murdered women. They all matter to us, it hurts us that they are no longer there, one of the main objectives is to make feminicides, violence visible and empathize as a community with the grief. Citing Cristina Rivera Garza Certain faces must be admitted into public life, must be seen and heard to grasp a deeper sense of the value of life, of all life. Therefore, it is not that mourning is the goal of politics, but without that ability to mourn we lose that deeper meaning of life that we need to oppose violence. This installation also includes an audio with women mentioning the names of 90 women who were murdered in Morelos, in the year 2023. Unfortunately, only sixty were made known, hiding the real number collected by NGOs and feminist groups.
The installation Fragmented Memories evokes the traces of what once inhabited, the presence, the painful absence of murdered women. They all matter to us, it hurts us that they are no longer there, one of the main objectives is to make feminicides, violence visible and empathize as a community with the grief. Citing Cristina Rivera Garza Certain faces must be admitted into public life, must be seen and heard to grasp a deeper sense of the value of life, of all life. Therefore, it is not that mourning is the goal of politics, but without that ability to mourn we lose that deeper meaning of life that we need to oppose violence. This installation also includes an audio with women mentioning the names of 90 women who were murdered in Morelos, in the year 2023. Unfortunately, only sixty were made known, hiding the real number collected by NGOs and feminist groups.