Dissent Atlas

Since 2008, Jemima Wyman has collected hundreds of online images related to camouflage used in global protest.

The photo-collage works from Wyman’s Haze series weave various images of smoke together to form landscapes. They become an atlas of recent global dissent. Meanwhile, her Declassified series utilises the discarded photo pieces that fall to her studio floor to depict the negative space around where smoke appears during protest—revealing defiant protesters, police with shields on masse, hands holding flares and the detritus left from conflict in the street.

The titles for these artworks are multi-page records detailing each constituent image and the associated protest, location, and date, gathering disparate historical moments into a partial yet sweeping account of global unrest.