127 x 178mm, 144 pages, Colour & risograph printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, Hand numbered edition of 150, 2026

Illinois-based artist Conrad Bakker is widely known for his "facsimile" sculptures and installations, which re-create the unmonumental objects and spaces of the everyday. For Untitled Project: COPY SHOP, Bakker brought together a wide array of these objects - carved and painted on a 1:1 scale in the artist's studio - and installed them in The Weather Station to re-create a 24-hour copy shop in the gallery.

Bakker’s Untitled Project: COPY SHOP positions the archetypal photocopy service businesses of the 80s and 90s as sites of curiosity, inquiry, artistic production, and nostalgia. "There was something strange, wonderful, and creative in this kind of commercial conjoining," Bakker writes, "where material-making, experimentation, politics and belief might be connected." For Untitled Project, Bakker created full-scale copy machines, tables, signage, and office equipment, all of which merge with The Weather Station's architecture (as well as its previous life as a functioning office) to evoke a shared space from our collective, recent past.

This publication of the same name brings together documentation of Bakker’s Weather Station installation alongside a short essay on the project by curator Brian Hitselberger, discussing the work’s unique relationship to Herman Melville’s 1853 novella Bartleby the Scrivener. Untitled Project: COPY SHOP also includes a poster documenting Bakker’s installation in the gallery bathroom and a special artist book re-imagining Bartleby as a cut-and-paste xerox zine.

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