“Four Notable Booksellers is comprised of four handmade sculptural units, reminiscent of the second-hand booksellers’ (bouquinistes) cabinets seen along the walls of the Seine in Paris.”

Four Notable Booksellers is comprised of four handmade sculptural units, reminiscent of the second-hand booksellers’ (bouquinistes) cabinets seen along the walls of the Seine in Paris. The selection within each cabinet is a collection of printed materials related to a subject. Each cabinet presents titles that attempt to explore different problems (the problem of expressing emotion, the problems with biography, the difficulty in defining a place and the slipperiness of abstraction) through a range of subjects including defeat/victory in sport, Alan Turing, the recent history of the Toronto art scene, cryptography and the monochrome. Each collection conjures both an absent bookseller, but also imagines the potential reader for those works contained within.