queer books banned in canada, by Eloisa Aquino & Jenny Lin

The drawings in this book were produced as part of the installation “A Bookstore Is Not A Bar,” by Eloisa Aquino and Jenny Lin, commissioned for the group show and colloquium Absence Is Present: LGBTQI+ Affective Memories, Never Apart Centre, Montreal, Summer of 2019.

pencil and ink drawings

18 pages

5 x 8 inches

digital B&W print on colour paper

The images depict some of the books that were, at some point, banned in Canada. To our knowledge, the banning of books is not occurring anymore, the last incidents being around 2010.