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.
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Nozomi Hasegawa
This is a series of 25 silkscreen prints, originally created from a single panoramic photograph of a landscape. From this photo, I made 25 slightly different prints of coastal scenes. When each of these 25 versions is animated as a flipbook, resembling a stop-motion video, it forms a one-second landscape video. The work captures moments in time, as if each print is a snapshot frozen in time. The sea depicted in the series is located near my hometown in Japan, within walking distance from the house where my family still lives. I created this series with the intention of sharing my nostalgic memories of this place with someone who may one day own these prints. The prints feature occasional pixel-like representations and are composed solely of yellow and blue layers, with red missing. This is meant to symbolize how memories gradually fade over time, reflecting the nature of memory itself. It is also a metaphor for the disappearing natural environment. The images of each print can be referenced from the URL above.
This is a series of 25 silkscreen prints, originally created from a single panoramic photograph of a landscape. From this photo, I made 25 slightly different prints of coastal scenes. When each of these 25 versions is animated as a flipbook, resembling a stop-motion video, it forms a one-second landscape video. The work captures moments in time, as if each print is a snapshot frozen in time. The sea depicted in the series is located near my hometown in Japan, within walking distance from the house where my family still lives. I created this series with the intention of sharing my nostalgic memories of this place with someone who may one day own these prints. The prints feature occasional pixel-like representations and are composed solely of yellow and blue layers, with red missing. This is meant to symbolize how memories gradually fade over time, reflecting the nature of memory itself. It is also a metaphor for the disappearing natural environment. The images of each print can be referenced from the URL above.