From January 18th to February 15th, 2025, Studio M at Rochelle School in London will host an exhibition featuring Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans, organized as part of Condo 2025. Presented by Air de Paris and hosted by Maureen Paley, the exhibition showcases the artists’ shared fascination with the photocopier as both a creative tool and a conceptual subject.
Pati Hill’s xerographs, created between 1977 and 1990, transform everyday objects like scissors, telephones, and sliced fruit into scanned still lifes that highlight the invisible labor of domestic life. By embracing the photocopier’s mechanics of duplication and abstraction, Hill reimagines its role as a bridge between text and image, art and documentation.
Accompanying Hill’s works is Wolfgang Tillmans’ large inkjet print, CLC 800, dismantled, a (2011), which captures the inner workings of a deconstructed photocopier. Tillmans, who began experimenting with photocopiers in the late 1980s, uses this medium to explore the nature of image-making and its deconstruction.
The exhibition underscores the artists’ innovative approaches to photography and reproduction, offering a dialogue on the intersection of the mundane and the poetic. Visitors are invited to engage with these works and reflect on the evolving role of technology in art.
CLC 800, dismantled, a, 2011
Untitled (red petals), c. 1990
