Tired Household

A series of seven staged photographs explores the theme of partner relationship breakdown caused by stereotype fatigue. Women who are literally consumed with caring for the perfect home gradually lose their personal desires and ambitions, cease to bring new impulses to the relationship, and are eventually abandoned by their partners.

In creating her "blending" costumes, the author collaborated with the clothing designer Larisa Gombárová. She searched textile shops for fabrics and patterns that matched the home decor of the photographed women. Conversely, in one case she looked for an interior with furniture upholstery as shown in a photograph of historic fabric, eventually finding it in a cottage in the Liptov region.

The images show women in long-term marriages who, to varying degrees, have experienced a feeling of gradually "fading into the furniture". Their neatly clean home accentuates feelings of emptiness and nostalgia. The genre of the portrait almost intertwines with the still life, and the static image captures a long-term process of decline. As in earlier work, the photographer uses the motif of a missing face, but still succinctly manages to reveal a person’s inner world.