Jessica Emmett
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Jessica Emmett (born 1982) is a photographer and conceptual artist. She was born in Hong Kong in a Vietnamese refugee camp, where she was put up for adoption and subsequently adopted by British expatriates. She emigrated with her adopted family to the UK in 1998. Jessica Emmett has a BA in Photography and an MA in Media Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jessica is now a practicing artist based in Manchester who explores very raw and personal experiences of being transracially adopted by examining adoption processes and themes surrounding family, race, colonialism and cultural diaspora. The foundation of Jessica’s experimental practice stems from film and photography, which lead to installations, performance and interactive pieces.
A strong method within Jessica’s practice is the act of repetition. This reaction is almost spiritual in response to unlocking memories, be these memories of her own or that of a cultural consciousness that she has lost along the way as a result of being adopted.
