Receiving the Toshihiro Hamano Special Award at the Utazu Art Award Biennial 2025 in Japan

I’m very honored that my new photographic series “Holes in Light” diptych: “Earth’s Faces” has been awarded the Toshihiro Hamano Special Award, the second prize in the frame of the 7th Utazu Art Award Biennale 2025 in Japan, in the province of Kagawa.

At the Biennale 2025 in Utazu, I participated with my new cycle of images commenting on the state of humankind on our planet Earth using the satellite images from my collaboration with the Slovenian satellite NEMO HD by Space.si, as well as images provided to me by ARTEO.earth, as I was selected into their 8-member group of Pioneers. 

With Prof.Toshihiro Hamano.

With prof.and art critic Akira Tatehata, the President of the Jury of this year's edition of the Utazu Biennial.

In front  of my two  awarded artworks, Holes in Light, and  Faces of Earth.

Eva Petrič: Holes in Light

By using data of various human activities on Earth in combination with satellite imagery (from my participation in the ArtEO.earth

pioneer program) and superimposing these with human shadow forms, I aim to disclose the human trace, the so-called shadow

imprint of us, humans, on planet Earth. Holes in Light is the acknowledgment of our intentional as well as unintentional, likewise

conscious and unconscious traces that we leave behind and emit through our human presence on planet Earth.

Eva Petrič: Faces of  Earth

The Earth has more than one face, and it is changing... very quickly. Borneo is the island with the most diversity in the world, but also where rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, destroying the entire planet. If Borneo bleeds, the entire world bleeds, because Borneo, with its rainforests, represents the lungs of our planet. (The Earth's three faces depict the Earth as overpopulated, covered with human footprints - human shadows, wrapped for the purpose of healing and, as a blue dot in the black cosmos as we know it...).

In the Kagawa daily newspaper on the Utazu 2025 Art Award Biennial.

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