Maureen Paley Displays Photocopier Works by Pati Hill & Wolfgang Tillmans
Highlighting both artists’ use of photocopiers as a creative tool, manipulating images to produce abstract compositions.
Maureen Paley presents a photographic showcase featuring Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans as part of Air de Paris at Studio M for Condo 2025. The exhibition highlights both artists’ use of photocopiers as a creative tool, manipulating images to produce abstract compositions and portraits of inanimate objects—where the machine itself becomes both the subject and the means of production.
“The principles on which the copier works—yes/no, multiplicity, instantaneousness—are those that govern much of modern life. Letting the copier impose rather than imposing on it may reveal something about our times and what lies ahead,” wrote Pati Hill in Letters to Jill, A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying (1979), reprinted by Mousse in 2020.
The exhibition features Hill’s distinctive xerographs from 1977 to 1990 alongside a single inkjet print by Tillmans from 2011. A standout work is Tillmans’ large, unframed inkjet print, “CLC 800, dismantled, a”, depicting a decommissioned photocopier in his studio.
“The exploration of the image surface, of the very nature of what constitutes an image, has always fascinated me… I became interested in photography through deconstructing or destroying it,” Tillmans shared in a 2001 interview with Art On Paper.
The exhibition runs through March 2025 at Studio M, London.
Studio M, London
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