The Potential of Printed Matter is a group show organized by the publishing collective Blackbook Publications. The purpose of the show was to investigate and deconstruct the making and the reading of the exhibiting artists artist books. The shows layout welcomed the visitor to touch and flip through books meanwhile navigating the walls that contained extracts from each artists work. Some of the walls where organized with classic framed photographs while others contained mind maps of interconnections between our works. We wanted to draw connections between our artistic practices and the process of making books, such as the editorial part as wellas the work with layout. The walls both worked as mind maps and as spread from a book. This show triggered a process for some of the Artists in the Black book collective. We realized that the ingrediencies of the making of a book is interesting form to continue to work with and for our upcoming show at Alingsås Konsthall early 2019 we will work with the space in such way that the visitor is invited to themselves produce, publish and distribute their own artists books.