Marrigje de Maar and Bert Teunissen
03 March - 05 June 2011
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MARRIGJE DE MAAR AND BERT TEUNISSEN
3 mARCH - 5 jUNE, 2011
Both Marrigje de Maar and Bert Teunissen travel to remote spots in the
world in order to photograph people in their homes. They show how these
people turn their houses into places where they feel at home, how simply
and sparingly they may be furnished. Natural light determines the
atmosphere and how things are arranged inside the house. Averse to any
international fashions or trends, these people choose, in the privacy of
their own surroundings, to have furniture, everyday objects and
souvenirs for reasons that relate to availability and tradition, but
also because they find them beautiful or inspiring. The fact that they
allow strange people into their houses attests to the conviction, the
respect and the tact with which these two photographers approach their
work. The interiors in these photographs tell stories: about individual
situations and desires (De Maar), and about the influence of economic
change on the lives of individuals (Teunissen).
Marrigje de Maar: Red Roses, Yellow Rain
At Huis Marseille Marrigje de Maar will be presenting, for the first
time, a retrospective of interiors that she photographed along China's
borders: in its northern, southern and western regions and along the
eastern coastline.
Bert Teunissen: Domestic Landscapes Travelogs
In the work of Bert Teunissen, whose series Domestic Landscapes was
shown at Huis Marseille in 2006-2007 with great success, the focus lies
with travel itself. While on the road for Domestic Landscapes, he shot
black-and-white photographs of the changing landscape and encounters on
the street from the window of his car.
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