Who is Annette Cho
My art addresses migration, adoption, and identity in a geopolitical context. I investigate the systematic defaults of the adoption industry and the structural consequences it brings.
I work to reclaiming a lost culture, language, and identity and ask the question what is transnational identity.
My artwork reflects the discrepancy between transnational adoptees’ heritage, upbringing, and self understanding. A trauma and a grotesqueness which have consequenses for all parties in the adoption industry.
Through my work I explore and comment on the complexity of transracial adoption from a personal, collective, existential, and aesthetic perspective, where the ethnic diasporas occur.