Maureen Paley presents a photographic showcase that includes Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans as a part of Air de Paris at Studio M for Apartment 2025. The exhibition highlights each artists’ use of photocopiers as a artistic instrument, manipulating photos to supply summary compositions and portraits of inanimate objects—the place the machine itself turns into each the topic and the technique of manufacturing.
“The rules on which the copier works—sure/no, multiplicity, instantaneousness—are those who govern a lot of recent life. Letting the copier impose relatively than imposing on it might reveal one thing about our occasions and what lies forward,” wrote Pati Hill in Letters to Jill, A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying (1979), reprinted by Mousse in 2020.
The exhibition options Hill’s distinctive xerographs from 1977 to 1990 alongside a single inkjet print by Tillmans from 2011. A standout work is Tillmans’ massive, unframed inkjet print, “CLC 800, dismantled, a”, depicting a decommissioned photocopier in his studio.
“The exploration of the picture floor, of the very nature of what constitutes a picture, has at all times fascinated me… I turned curious about pictures by deconstructing or destroying it,” Tillmans shared in a 2001 interview with Artwork On Paper.
The exhibition runs by March 2025 at Studio M, London.
Studio M, London
Flat 3
50 Comeragh Street
London W14 9HR
England
