Extract. Exploit. Emit.

Before data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi takes part in an exhibition, she always considers the existing visual language around a subject. Then she decides if she wants to use the same shapes, icons and colours, or deviate from them completely. She says, "When I started to do that same research for this work, I found an old imperial map. It was such a beautiful image, but that was its danger – because oppression can be presented in aesthetically pleasing ways.” Like all her work, this piece is informed by data. And like all her work, Mona humanises that data, in this case surrounding the frame with plant, animal and human characters who themselves embody the facts of climate change, and make it impossible to ignore the white supremacist neo-imperialism that created it.