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Aggregate Icon (Kaleidoscopic Catchment) 2014

Artwork Aggregate Icon (Kaleidoscopic Catchment) this artwork made of Hand-cut digital photographs and archival tape, created in 2014-01-01
Accession No.
2014.116
Date Created
2014
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Dimensions A
205cm (diam.)
Media Category
Assemblage
Medium
Hand-cut digital photographs and archival tape
Credit Line
Purchased 2014. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Grant

Since 2008, Jemima Wyman has built an extensive archive of images of protesters from around the world wearing masks and makeshift camouflage uniforms. In her ‘Aggregate Icon’ series, the artist prints and hand-cuts dozens of these images, arranging them into mandala-like collages. The protesters in Aggregate Icon (Kaleidoscopic Catchment) 2014 wear fluorescent tie-dye as their uniform — a camouflage that hides their individual identities but draws attention to the group through its lurid colours. Wyman’s work shows how protest uniforms subsume individuals into the mass of the group, emphasising collective power and giving those who wear them strength in numbers. In this, visual patterns become symbols of resistance.

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