Understanding My Feminine Self

2015 - Ongoing

Using myself as a subject — alongside my mother, sister, and intimate partners — I unravel my relationship to gender, sexuality, and performance. Through self-portraiture, memory recreations, and documentary photographs, I witness my internal psyche, holding space for vulnerability, shame, eroticism, desire, power, and resistance. By critically examining patriarchal norms of femininity within my own experience, I explore how identity is learned, performed, and negotiated through both conscious and unconscious acts.

Evolving alongside me, this project illuminates the contours of my female experience and the unfolding of my identity and self-understanding.

sing myself as a subject — alongside my mother, sister, and intimate partners — I unravel my relationship to gender, sexuality, and performance. Through self-portraiture, memory recreations, and documentary photographs, I witness my internal psyche, holding space for vulnerability, shame, eroticism, desire, power, and resistance. By critically examining patriarchal norms of femininity within my own experience, I explore how identity is learned, performed, and negotiated through both conscious and unconscious acts.

Evolving alongside me, this project illuminates the contours of my female experience and the unfolding of my identity and self-understanding.

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© Jamie Jaye Fletcher