Chantal Gibson: TOME

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Chantal Gibson, "TOME," 2019

mixed media

The University of Victoria's McPherson Library is host to Chantal Gibson's mixed-media installation TOME.

TOME is an imagined history book made from coffee and cotton. This book sculpture is a topographical landscape of memory imagined from a larger historical narrative about the African Diaspora. Challenging traditional ways of knowing, it is to be read with the senses. Situated amongst other historical and literary works, this book speaks to the creativity that emerges from the struggle for visibility and inclusion. Find it on the main floor of the UVic's McPherson Library on the right-hand side.

In concert with the installation, Chantal will read from her book of poetry How She Read in the University of Victoria's McPherson Library - Mearns Centre for Learning. The reading will be held Thursday, February 14 at 3:00pm in the Library's Special Collections, room A003.

Chantal Gibson (chantalgibson.com) is an artist-educator interested in the cultural production of knowledge. Her work explores the overlap between literary and visual art, challenging imperialist notions quietly embedded in everyday things - from academic schoolbooks to kitschy souvenir spoons. Her visual art has appeared at the ROM in Toronto and MBAM in Montreal and her first book How She Read is forthcoming in January 2019 (Caitlin Press). An award-winning instructor, she teaches writing and design communication in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.