Peter Freitag’s works involve research to the extent that the artist does more than simply scratch the surface of the pictures, penetrating the images and allowing us to experience their scope of meaning by altering it. - Stefanie Heckmann from essay Behind the Image: On Peter Freitag’s Works Plunge into summer at Gallery TPW and immerse yourself in Peter Freitag's unsettling world of families vacationing in environments devoid of moveable objects. In his first exhibition in Canada, the Berlin-based artist presents 16 large-scale colour photo works of digitally altered images appropriated from European travel brochures. An essay by Berlin-based critic and art historian Stefanie Heckmann accompanies the exhibition. Come and celebrate with TPW at the annual summer party and opening reception where the artist will be present, and experience the sounds of Pulse Plant in a live show of transgressive Pys-trance. Freitag’s series Examples for Communication depicts what Freitag calls “the idea of a happy family vacation.” The title of the show references the German expression “Wohnbeispiel” meaning “example for living,” an expression used in the original travel brochures. Using simple computer-aided interference, the artist removes props such as magazines, toys and drinks from each image leaving the models with their surrounding hotel furniture or in their outdoor vacation settings. By removing these objects that are intended to provide the models with an air of contentment, Freitag confuses the intended message of these originally banal advertisements, creating instead an eerie world of miscommunication. For example, one image shows a young girl reclining on a hotel bed while her parents peer in from the adjacent balcony, immediately creating a feeling of suspicion.