Me and Me was made by Yanmei Jiang and Wenjun Chen.
Me and Me is a series of self-portraits from 2017 to 2018. It is about self-exploration within relationships in China. Through performance photography in this work, the artists use the bodies to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity, reflecting the inner struggles and questioning traditional roles.
After meeting in 2007, Yanmei and Wenjun began to unconsciously record each other’s daily lives and conduct photographic experiments using each other as models. Since 2014, they have begun to make performance self-portraits to explore and understand themselves in this relationship, trying to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity. This project organizes their stories from 2007 to 2018. It is also presented in the form of a handmade book (2007-2015).
Me and Me received the awards of Taipei Photo Emerging Talent Awards 2016, and the XITEK EOS New Talent Award 2015. It also got the finalist of the 8th Three Shadow Photography Award 2016 and the finalist of the Dummy Award Kassel 2016. Me and Me have had exhibitions in China, Japan, the UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Croatia, Portugal, Denmark, and Slovakia.
In 2020, “Me and Me” was collected by the Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum in China and the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation in Germany.