Bio
Linda Pietrobelli (2001) and Ambra Zamengo (2002) are currently pursuing their Bachelor's degree in Multimedia Arts at IUAV University of Venice. In 2023, they formed the collective “LOVELY-RATZ”, born from the desire to work together, engaging with the dimension of “the other” and considering it as necessary for the development of thought.
Statement
Bringing together performance and photography in the analysis of human dynamics, with a particular focus on interpersonal relationships and roles in society, our artistic research focuses on individual communication modes, privileging women and queer perspectives. Often, other people become the focal point of the creative process and the work itself.
We constantly work to create spaces for dialogue and reflection, stimulating an empathetic connection. In the harmonious union of aesthetics and conceptual research, our artistic practice shapes visual and theoretical connections through performative practices and bodily gestures. Through performance, we explore how the body interacts with the surrounding space, reinterpreting and shaping the environment through the body, and through its perception.
Body and garment merge in a close connection: clothes become a bearer of identity, both individual and cultural, interacting in a profound relationship that combines the concepts of fashion and performance. This approach allows us to explore and communicate the complex dynamics of human relationships, places, individuals, and communities.
In the pursuit of a pre-practical human and emotional dialogue, we are interested in better understanding the human being in all its facets, through a psychological and anthropological approach to understanding other cultures.
Hence, our interest in connecting territory, nature, and the human subject through expressive means such as photography, performance, and other artistic channels.
Frammenti di festa
Group exhibithion “Nessuno ha parlato di divertimento”, Laboratorio Video held by Lorenzo Lazzari with the collaboration of Eleonora Bonino, IUAV University of Venice
A visual and sonic investigation into the Venetian party scene within the contemporary socio-political context. The project takes Facce di festa by Studio Azzurro as a reference point, revisiting the questions posed in the film to explore the meaning, form, and memory of festive moments.
The party is approached as an emotional and collective space, reconstructed through fragments of memory. The videos are composed of visual and sound materials collected during interviews: distorted imagery and archival footage intertwine in a flow that moves between the personal and the political, between past and present.
Distortion becomes a metaphor for the instability of memory, while the party emerges as an ephemeral territory of meaning, body, and metamorphosis.
Work by Linda Pietrobelli, Ambra Zamengo, Carlotta Savio, Federico Stocco