E. Lotti Astolfi work focuses on fragments of existence in relation to time and impermanence, both as evidence of something already gone or in the  process of disappearing. Her work deals with existential themes that relate to the human struggle with loss, perpetual violence and longing.

The artist draws from traces of everyday life, that she finds through observation, memory and in the surrounding environment. Making this environment tangible with sound recordings, poetry annotations and found material, such as image cut-ups and objects, is a central aspect of this process. This practice is driven by the urgency to escape the anxiety related to the sense of loss and destructiveness as a phenomenon understood not only from a perspective of the self, but also in terms of physical environment and collective psychological states.

Born in Rimini, Italy, in 1982, E. Lotti Astolfi’s artistic production stems from an early interest in international experimental music, theatre and texts, layered with an interest in the Italian classical aesthetic that became more present after relocating to London and then to Berlin. Through her practice, the artist elaborates on the external and internal realms of personal experience. Just as fragments of the outside environment offer an opportunity to grasp a possible view on reality, the physical handling of matter, though stages of constructing, deconstructing and un-resolved discovery, overlaps with the elaboration of intimate aspects related to identity, queerness and a continuous search for liberation within the frames of otherness.

“Lotti Astolfi works towards entropy, towards the re-codification of chaotic signs. Through her work we connect to the present, looking through a lens of darkness that taps into the depth of our souls, projecting us to a delighted and not surrendered wreck." (Prof. Arch. Valerio Bindi, Rome, Italy).