Busco projecte artístic per copiar-lo

During my residency at hangar.org in Barcelona in 2024, I put up an ad in the street saying: “I am looking for an artistic project to copy. With an interesting process and concept. A finished work that was successful. More info here: laurapaloma012@gmail.com.” I also contacted three local artists asking them if I could copy one of their works. The artists Mario Santamaría, Roc Herms and Julia Gorostidi answered my call and each gave me one of their projects to copy. 
​​ With this work, I am interested in the performative moment where an artist gives me one of their projects to copy ie: “you can copy this”. It is a reflection on the nature of a copy and the act of copying: Will my version of the work be a variation, fan art, a spin-off, a continuation, an imitation? Will the result take the form of a loving parody? A compression? A rip-off? Will it be a clone or back up? Is this the gesture of a meme-maker or that of a software engineer copying source code and forking a project? And if a copy is thought of as worse quality or as less valuable than the original: How can I make my copy purposefully less good than the original work? ​This project is an attempt to be in direct dialogue with an artistic work without the act of appropriation or referencing but instead through that of copying. I have completed 2 of the 3 copies so far. I have recently begun working on my third. Auto Sleep copy (2024) a non-automatic email reply informing you that I am not sleeping. Auto Sleep copy does not always work and forgets to reply to some of my emails. It is a copy of the automatic email reply Auto Sleep by Mario Santamaría. hacer pantallazo copy or My Impersonal Diary Through Screenshots (2024) https://www.flickr.com/photos/201358044@N04/ not-automatically collects, sorts and uploads to flickr my most deletable screenshots. These are screenshots I take for pragmatic reasons and end up deleting because I no longer need them. hacer pantallazo copy or My Impersonal Diary Through Screenshots documents part of my life inside the screen but also recreates the easiest screenshots to copy from Roc Herms’ screenshot diary and mixes them in with my least memorable screenshots. The uploading process is extremely slow and the project is never up to date. Sometimes a more personal screenshot is uploaded by mistake. It is a copy of Hacer Pantallazo (My Personal Diary Through Screenshots) by Roc Herms.

 My personal travel diary through screenshots copy (2024) is a cheap copy of any past or future book publications by Roc Herms involving screenshots and travelling. This publication is composed of screenshots taken by my younger self during a solo trip in 2018. A trip I took in search of life experience and writing material. It is a coming of age tale that revisits the road trip as a photographic genre.