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When something changes in a relationship, thoughts, feelings and fears appear. Sometimes there is a struggle. Or a silence. A failed conversation.

It is often through heritage, tradition and media that we are taught how a man and a woman ”should

be” and how they should relate to each other in a relationship. So how is the male self image

affected when the woman for instance starts to earn more money than the man? And how is the

sexual relationship affected if the man suddenly is responsible for most of the domestic work?

Conversation Failed is about people who have lived together for a longer period of time. The

project is partly based on my own experiences from various relationships, but also on the

experiences of other couples that have arised through conversations. I take a look at power

structures, gender roles and sexuality and I have talked to people who, like myself, are in midlife.

People and couples who are struggling with various adversities and bouts of anxiety in their

everyday lives. People who love, compromise, sacrifice, fail.

Is there even a possibility of understanding and reconciliation without communication?

In the project, I have been working with Lina Holmgren, a psychologist based in Gothenburg, who

is writing about the breakdown of communication. I am also working with Alex Pacheco from

Crash Boom Bang Studios in Stockholm, with the design and launch of a book.