Huis Marseille Museum For Photography is located in a maison bourgeoise built in 1665. Despite the innumerable rooms, the stuccorwork, and the ceiling paintings by Jacob De Wit, I felt at home. The photographies of interiors by Bert Teunissen and Marrigje De Maar participated in that cosy atmosphere.
Until June 5, 2011, the museum highlights an interesting parallel between the works of these two talented Dutch photographers.

I am moved by the nostalgic search behind ‘Domestic Landscapes’ by Bert Teunissen, by the tact, the respect, the humility with which both photographers approach their work.

I’ve copied some excerpts of the epilogue of ‘Domestic Landscapes, A portrait of Europeans at home’. They are written by Saskia Asser, curator at Huis Marseille. 
The text begins with a reference to Ignatieff’s ‘The Russian Album’ :
‘No one lives in the house where they grew up or even in the town or village where they once were children’ (…) ’ Because emigration, exile and expatriation are now the normal condition of existence, it is almost impossible to find the right words for rootedness and belonging’ (…) ‘Our need for home is cast in the language of loss. Belonging now is retrospective  rather than actual, remembered rather than experienced , imagined rather than felt’

‘To give shape to this sense of uprootedness, Ignatieff retraced the steps of his own family history. Bert Teunissen turned to photography and began to photograph people who were indeed rooted in the place where they were born and in the houses where they grew up’. 

‘Just as landscape never moves but instead gradually but irrevocably changes in appearance these people have slowly become intertwined with their interior surroundings.’

Ruurlo #7R, 8/11/2009 12:16, Bert Teunissen

Yunnan, 2010, Marrigje De Maar

Links & Sources :

Huis Marseille, Museum For Photography
Bert Teunissen
Marrigje de Maar