“What if there were more than the two of us? (TRIADE)” refers to alternative relationship models as an opposite concept to the socially established two-person relationship. The project addresses love life as a terrain for attempts to break out of conventional life models and experiment with other forms of relationships. Nine photographs (found in private archives & at flea markets), each depicting three people, are brought together in triangular frames to form a geometric frame collage. The images reveal tensions between the posing protagonists and offer viewers a projection surface for associations.

The love triangle is the most common form of polyamory and also the most unstable. In a sense, it is considered the prototype of every complex relationship, because all the structural problems of a branched relationship are concentrated here. This is made obvious by the visualization of the threesome as a triangle, which is also used in sociology. Each point is connected to the other two points via the sides. All points are thus related to each other. Sociological theories even claim that one can only speak of the “social” when three people come together. However, the “imaginary Third” seems to appear in every form of relationship.