Jakob Lotta, a fag raised by hags, draws from a post-communist, post-AIDS upbringing in Slovakia, where older women embodied authority within domestic and political life. Working across painting, publishing, film, music, installation and appropriation, he develops age ambiguity as a method, researching the anti-ageist potential of naïve intergenerational attachment.Working through naïve portraiture, aquarelle on aged paper, experimental print processes, appropriated imagery, and domestic ready-mades, Lotta treats age-coded materials as stable carriers of moral inheritance. The fag/hag relation—neither fully assimilated into heterosexual domesticity nor entirely external—cultivates an anthological eye attuned to domestic objects as both conservative inheritance and material for reinvention.Lotta probes key questions: How does cultural transmission evolve when admiration persists beyond critique, prioritizing proximity over ideological alignment ? How does compromise diverge from complicity in conveying charged legacies, and how does it relate to integrity? In what ways does anthologizing surpass archiving for navigating conflicted histories? And how can deliberate ambiguity in age, gender, and material value transform contested inheritances?Central framework to his practice is loveaiDS art anthologies, an assembling of Lotta's original works. The typographic fracture of “love aiDS” intertwines HIV history, artificial intelligence, aid, and attachment to outrageous hope into a single ongoing publishing structure.Recent projects include the pop-up exhibition and aquarelle series We Lived. Now What (January 2026, Royal Academy, The Hague); the Sans Comic Contrefaçon typography print series (2026); publications such as Geert Wilders: We Should All Be Mothers (2026), Gay Sauna (2026) or Cocking Book (2025). The docu-drama feature Novena Hopes (2025) with its companion record, Novena Hopes: Music For the Motion Picture (2025); and the thesis jakob lotta’s notes on love aiDS: Age Ambiguity and the Making of Novena Hopes, awarded the Scriptie Kunst Incentive Award at Dutch Design Week 2025.