Pati Hill
Onsen Confidential
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Solo Exhibition | September 10 – 24, 2022
Take Ninagawa is pleased to announce Pati Hill’s first solo exhibition in Asia. In collaboration with Air de Paris, the exhibition will be presented as part of the inaugural edition of Onsen Confidential, a hybrid city-wide gallery share combined with natural hot spring retreat/conference. The project aims to introduce Tokyo’s contemporary art scene by bringing together like-minded galleries.
Pati Hill, Untitled (plant bulbs), 1990 © Estate of Pati Hill, courtesy of Air de Paris, Romainville and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, photo by Marc Domage
Pati Hill
Born in 1921 in Ashland, Kentucky, Pati Hill left behind an artistic output spanning roughly 60 years and encompassing various disciplines. Hill began to use the photocopier as an artistic tool in the early 1970s and continued to do so until her death in 2014 in Sens, France, leaving behind an extensive oeuvre that explores the relationship between image and text.
By using the copier, a machine that was stereotypically linked to secretarial and feminized labor, Hill traced everyday objects such as a comb, a carefully folded pair of men’s trousers, or a child’s toy, to programmatically translate invisible domestic labor into a visual and public language. Through her use of this reproductive apparatus, Hill created a model of artistic production that critically opposes the convention of individual expression as well as the supposed neutrality of technologically produced images.
Solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zürich (2020); Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut (2017); Musée de Sens (2012); and Musée Lambinet, Versailles (2005). Public collections include the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the Whitney Museum of Art (New York).