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"Artists are sometimes equated with shamans, and art museums with temples. In this exhibition of new work by Peter von Tiesenhausen from Demmitt, Alberta, this is an apt metaphor. When asked to do a project for the Two Rivers Gallery he caught immediately onto a similarity between the exhibition space and an oil painting by Emily Carr from 1929 called "Indian Church". The painting shows the flattened facade of a white church surrounded by a forest of conifers. There are distinct resonances with the gallery. Seen in cross section, the gallery walls correspond well with the sides and roof of the church, while a skylight suggests the belfry. For the purpose of this project, at least, the Gallery is transformed into that church, becoming the site where Peter von Tiesenhausen's Requiem is played out."--from pub. description on website.