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In his enigmatic photo series 'Is This The Poem I Promised You?', the Dutch photographer Richard Westerhuis (1965) subtly visualises the concept of domesticity. With the aid of dozens of sets and props, he reconstructs rooms in which something remarkable seems to have happened. The people in the story have disappeared, but what they have left behind speaks volumes and stimulates our imagination. In each photo of such a recreated room, the light is slightly different and new props can be seen. They raise many questions: Who were the inhabitants of this house? Why did they leave in a …