Sofia Lotti (1991) grew up between rural and urban settings, cultivating from childhood a contemplative engagement with nature and an inclination for manipulating diverse materials. Her training is marked by exposure to multiple artistic techniques, which gradually coalesced into images that revisit and unfold the landscape genre.

The artist works from photographic images captured during her travels and encounters with nature, adapting compositions into textile works, paintings, or pastel drawings — a triad that defines her practice. Lotti’s research centers on color, emphasizing luminous qualities through the manipulation of pigments and the creation of her own materials, such as dry pastels and tempera. With a palette more expressive than realistic, she builds solid, well-defined chromatic areas that interact through contrast or proximity. Her compositions oscillate between the recognition of forms and their dissolution into abstraction.

Movement, in Lotti’s work, is not only perceptual but also procedural, leading her to undertake artist residencies abroad and, more recently, to return to her hometown. Her work is part of public collections at Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André; Oak Spring Garden Foundation (United States – on-site visit); New York Presbyterian Art Collection; and Edifício Verde Cambuci, São Paulo; as well as private collections.

Paineiras no alto (2025) is a tapestry produced especially for the exhibition O fiar–pontos, nós, corte, held at Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo. The image is based on a photograph taken by the artist in the surroundings of Poços de Caldas, depicting a rural landscape located between Minas Gerais and São Paulo, where the artist grew up and currently lives. In Lotti’s words: “The blooming paineiras ground me in the time of year— February—and make me more intimate”.