Printed Matter is pleased to present Pati Hill: My old fur coat doesn’t know me, an exhibition exploring the publications and expansive photocopy practice of American writer and artist Pati Hill (1921–2014). This archival exhibition traces Hill’s work over 40 years, featuring some of her most emblematic projects from the early 1970s onward. With an emphasis on artists’ books and related working materials, the show puts on view original publications, mock-ups, manuscripts, and ephemera, much of which is being exhibited for the first time.

Pati Hill: My old fur coat doesn’t know me is curated by Baptiste Pinteaux, publisher of the Paris-based press Daisy and the art journal octopus notes. The exhibition is produced with the assistance of the Pati Hill Collection at Arcadia University (Glenside, Pa.) and gallery Air de Paris.

Beginning in the 1970s, Hill became captivated by the possibilities of xerography, making copies of household items at her disposal—garments, trinkets, flowers, photographs and “common objects”—while also pushing the copy machine in more experimental directions. The show focuses on her prints, artists’ books, and associated working materials, including mock-ups, manuscripts, drawings, and ephemera, much of which is on view for the first time.

On occasion of the exhibition, Printed Matter will release a new booklet that excerpts “High in the Sky,” the last chapter of Hill’s unpublished journal The History of Dressmaking. Written between 1972 and 1977, the text captures Hill’s life ten years after she claimed to “quit writing in favor of housekeeping,” reflecting on photocopying as well as her time in Stonington, Paris, and Les Massons. The title of this exhibition is borrowed from one of the many brief, wry entries that distinguish the journal and Hill’s prose of the period.

More information on the event can be found here.