The Curators

11/07/2025

Copy / Paste
1st Prize Winner
Maria Naidyonova

Maria Naidyonova is a Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based fine artist, specializing in drawing, painting, and animation.

“My work unfolds in several thematic series that I continuously develop. “Friends and Lovers” explores human relationships and the subjective world of emotions, capturing fleeting states of mind.

I mostly work in mixed media, often beginning with pencils, which allows me to keep the style light and spontaneous. This approach leaves space for improvisation, much like my paper sketches.
Deeply influenced by classical art and inspired by its visual language, I rework it through a contemporary lens, allowing new narratives to emerge.”

“Picnic on the Lake”, 31.5 × 47.2 in / 80 x 120 cm, mixed media on canvas (from the “Friends and Lovers”
series)

11/07/2025

Copy / Paste
2nd Prize Winner
Edwige Fouvry

Edwige Fouvry is a French painter whose work has been shown in Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., Miami, Munich, Neuchatel, Murcia, and, most spectacularly, in a series of bold solo exhibitions at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. From the moment Peter Selz reviewed her work for Art Ltd (and later chose to include her work in “HEADS”, his curated selection of portraits, putting Fouvry in the room with artists such as Lucian Freud, Alex Kanevsky, and Ann Gale), Fouvry’s critical reception can be tracked across publications from the San Francisco Chronicle to ArtDaily to JUXTAPOZ to the recent book More Disruption by John Seed.

“Le bain” after Seurat 15.7 × 19.7 in / 40x50 cm , oil on board

11/07/2025

Copy / Paste
3rd Prize Winner
Kara Beth Rasure

This work “Algopress” begins with a 3D scan of a face, carried into a mold and pressed into pulp made from recycled Amazon boxes. The mold and the cast are bound together on a mechanical arm, so the tool and the result appear as one. By keeping them together, the piece shows how identity today is not grounded in an original but is shaped through acts of copy and paste. The use of packaging pulp connects the work to the systems that shape daily life such as
circulation, consumption, and exchange. A face, often seen as unique, appears fragile and repeatable, caught in the same flows as the products we order and discard. The work reflects a condition of contemporary life in which people, like commodities, are copied, pasted, and circulated until the line between self and system is difficult to draw.

Kara Beth Rasure is a multi-media sculpture artist blending digital technologies with craft practices. Their work reflects the strangeness of contemporary life and the weight of existential questions. They teach art and human centered design on multiple scales at Indiana University.

Kara Rasure and Maxwell Fertik are a design duo at Indiana University. Kara blends digital technologies and craft, while Max explores postindustrial ecologies.

11/07/2025

Meet the remaining finalists of Copy / Paste

Elizabeth Mc Alpin
Lauren Moses
Natacha Mercier .mercier_
Andrew Orloski
Jana Šantavá
Abhishek Sharma
Aline Smithson
Anna Maria Smyrnaki .m.smyrnaki
Elzbieta “Ela” Zdunek
Kristina Zulkiene

11/07/2025

Meet the first finalists of Copy / Paste.

Rotem Amizur
Jenny Brillhart
Theo Gaffney
Aurélie Gérardin
François Grivelet
Austin Hayman
Maria Hoshovska
Kei Ito .ito.art
Maria Kostareva
Eska Marsh

11/07/2025

This summer, we asked artists to send us Their interpretation of the theme Copy / Paste.

The project explored echoes, détournements, and the endless possibilities between repetition and invention.
The responses were extraordinary, each submission a new variation, a new question, a new voice. Copies were made, originals blurred, and rules bent.
The variations, echoes, and détournements have spoken, and they’ve spoken loudly.

Endless thanks to all who joined our Copy / Paste call for art. The selection took time and decisions were anything but easy. Thank you so much for your patience, we know the results took a little longer than expected.

The level of quality, sensitivity, and originality we encountered made the selection process truly difficult and also incredibly inspiring.
We are very grateful to each of the artists for taking the time to share their work and vision with us.

It’s been a joy to discover so many strong practices and thoughtful proposals.

Well without further ado, meet the artists who joined the experiment.

10/21/2025

Copies made, originals blurred, and rules bent.
The variations, echoes, and détournements have spoken, and they’ve spoken loudly.
Endless thanks to all who joined our Copy / Paste call for art. The selection took time and decisions were anything but easy.
Thanks again to all the artists who contributed to this project.

Results are coming soon

📷

09/10/2025

Views of the Lac d’Annecy by

“Much of what I do is rooted in observing human behavior, childhood narratives, and fragments of cultural memory. These elements often sur face in the form of archetypal figures or scenes that feel both personal and collectively recognizable. I’m interested in how symbols, gestures, and familiar motifs can carry emotional or psychological weight without being tied to a single reading . Each new series becomes an attempt to find a visual language that fits the subject — not by illustrating it, but by uncovering something essential about how it feels.”

“Le lac d’Annecy №1”
Paper, watercolor, oil pastel, colored marker
23.6” x 19.6” in / 60 x 50 cm
2025

“Le lac d’Annecy №3”
Paper, watercolor, oil pastel, colored marker
23.6” x 19.6” in / 60 x 50 cm
2025

“Le lac d’Annecy №2”
Paper, watercolor, oil pastel, colored marker
25.6” x 19.6” in / 65 x 50 cm
2025

“Le lac d’Annecy №4”
Paper, watercolor, oil pastel, colored marker
23.6” x 15.7” in / 60 x 40 cm
2025

“Le lac d’Annecy №6”
Paper, watercolor, oil pastel, colored marker
23.6” x 15.7” in / 60 x 40 cm
2025

Now available on thecuratots.com

09/09/2025

Yakov Khomich (b. 1997) is an artist unafraid of experimentation. His creation, leopards riding elephants, plush bears, paintings sprinkled with meme phrases, have captured the attention of many collectors.
Immersed in art since childhood, he grew up in a family of artists and was shaped by an education focused on creativity and visual culture.
Initially drawn to cinema, he enrolled in one of Russia’s leading film schools before choosing to fully devote himself to painting. Fascinated by the emotional and psychological resonance of symbols, gestures, and recurring motifs, Khomich seeks not to illustrate but to uncover something essential about his subjects, their mood, tension, and unspoken stories.

On view:

“See you tomorrow”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
35.4 » x 35.4” in / 90 x 90 cm

“Where did i go wrong”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
35.4 » x 35.4” in / 90 x 90 cm

“Panic Attack”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
39.3 » x 39.3” in / 100 x 100 cm

“Turn it off”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
35.4 » x 35.4” in / 90 x 90 cm

“Speak to me”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
35.4 » x 35.4” in / 90 x 90 cm

“Gulliver”
Spray paint and Acrylic on Canvas
47.2 » x 47.2 » in / 120 x 120 cm

Now available on thecurators.com

09/05/2025

“Bedroom”

Mixed media on canvas

19.6” in x 23.6” in / 50 cm x 60 cm

2023

Born in Rimini in 1963, Luca Giovagnoli still lives and works there. His work is at once linked to a territory, his city, Remini, the city of Federico Fellini and to the theme of love and er***sm.

While the setting varies, from public beaches to sensual atmospheres in hotel rooms to Luca’s studio, each scene pulsates with an intriguing blend of allure and secrecy, inviting viewers to explore the intricate interplay between the seen and the hidden.

08/29/2025

LAST DAYS TO APPLY
Deadline September 1st

Open Call
Thème : Copy / Paste
10 Finalists
$1.000 Cash Prizes

From Pompeian frescoes to Renaissance studios, from Duchamp’s readymades to Cindy Sherman, copying has always been the basis of art. Artists learn, experiment, and create through repetition.

In 2025, copy‑paste is more than a command—it’s a language, a gesture, a condition. We’re seeking works that explore quotation, ,duplication, rupture, tribute, and détournement in all their poetic, conceptual, and visual forms.

As Lavoisier said, “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”

We invite artists & thinkers across disciplines to submit up to 3 works (all media welcome) that echo, sample, subvert, and transform.

JURY:

✦ Léa Simone Allegria – writer & art critic []
✦ Pierre Allizan – curator & researcher []
✦ Augustin Doublet – curator & founder of .curators

Apply now via the link in bio/profile

We look forward to discovering your take on Copy / Paste, its mirrors, its ruptures, its possibilities.

08/29/2025