My name is Asia Rota, and I am the daughter of a postman ( = la figlia di un postino, hence @lafigliadelpostino) and a painter. The worlds my parents left me as an inheritance have allowed me to discover Mail Art along my journey and decide, over time, first at university, then through encounters, interviews, and self-taught research, to study this artistic phenomenon in greater depth, which is so little known in Italy.

I was born under the sign of Libra in 1994 (the same year the film Il Postino by Massimo Troisi and Michael Redford was released) in Bergamo (the city in whose province Cornello dei Tasso is located, the village that gave birth to the family that founded the modern European postal system).

My name originates from a great passion my parents, particularly my father, had for traveling. This reveals more about my family: I have two brothers, the youngest of whom is Indian (adopted). I grew up in a strongly multicultural environment, not only in terms of origins but also affinities, interests, and passions.

In 2012, when I was 18 years old, I participated in my first Mail Art project. At the end of 2016, I graduated in Cultural Heritage at the University of Milan with a thesis about Shozo Shimamoto, a Japanese artist also associated with Mail Art. Subsequently, I moved to Venice, where I lived and worked during my master's degree years in the history of arts and conservation of artistic heritage with a contemporary focus. In 2019, I graduated at Ca' Foscari University with a thesis about Mail Art, analyzing its origins, its journey, how it works, and some of its most representative artists to understand the scope of this artistic world.

In 2020, during the lockdown period due to the Covid pandemic, I initiated a postal art project to collect testimonies from mail artists around the world. The works received (almost a hundred, from various corners of the earth) are part of a small archive that will illustrate a book dedicated to Mail Art. In 2021, I moved to Germany for a work project, but my artistic heart and mind remained deeply connected to Italy, perhaps somewhat stifled by the way the history of art is studied and "passed on," as well as by the limited open-mindedness of research.

At the beginning of 2022, I therefore launched the Instagram profile @lafigliadelpostino to join the great team of online art sharers, bringing Mail Art dissemination to social media and trying, in some way, to broaden accessibility to this art hidden under the surface layer of the system and the art society.

@lafigliadelpostino is the only educational profile with a focus on postal art, in Italy and worldwide. In 2023, I won the Cornello Dei Tasso Award established by the Tasso Museum and Postal History Museum in Camerata Cornello, in the province of Bergamo. At the end of 2023, I published my first book, a small "manual" to get to know Mail Art; a text that will help you understand the origins and functioning of the phenomenon. My writing is already preceded by publications by Italian artists such as Vittore Baroni and Anna Boschi.

Currently, I work for a contemporary art gallery in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, and curate artistic projects linked to everyday life together with other professionists.