The roots: collage

Collecting and archiving fragments of images and texts is a central aspect of E. Lotti Astolfi’s work. This involves elaborating traces of the environment as if they were specimen of reality, in a process that resembles aspects of both a crime scene examination and an archaeological process.

This practice developed into the creation of ever-growing image and collage archives that include clipping from magazines, street posters, flyers, books and the artist own photography. A multi-faceted and obsessive accumulation of image cut-ups covering the nightmare of contemporary times.

Through this work E. Lotti Astolfi elaborates both the outside and her inner personal world. The building of identity, the queer body, existential angst. The artist refers to these archives as World Observatory. Between dream and reality, a visionary stream of information that overflows and reverberates into every aspect of the artist work.