Jemima Wyman - 10/24/2023
Jemima Wyman’s practice explores camouflage as a visual and psychological device related to power. Billow consists of collages of hand-cut photographs depicting smoke used in recent protests, all of which are related back to ‘camouflage’—a word derived from the French term camouflet, which literally means ‘a whiff of smoke in the face’.
Wyman finds images online of plumes of various smoke generated from flares, fires, and deterrents, cuts them up and collages them together to make various formations that map global unrest.
Wyman is a palawa woman, with paternal descendants from the pairrebeener people of tebrakunna, and poredareme. She has maternal descendants from England. Wyman’s work focuses on patterns and masking to investigate visual resistance: specifically camouflage as a formal, social and political strategy in negotiating identity.
source-Agency Projects
“As much as these collages acknowledge the troubled and complex air we breathe in the contemporary, they still foreground the importance of resistance against ongoing oppression.”
— Tim Riley Walsh
— Tim Riley Walsh
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