Bio
Linda Pietrobelli (2001) and Bri Zamengo (2002)
graduated with
a 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
By combining performance and photography to explore human dynamics, our research focuses on interpersonal relationships and social roles through queer and transfeminist perspectives, placing relational processes at the core of practice.
Collaboration is both a method and an ethical position: we understand artistic research as a shared process shaped by relations between people, objects, spaces, and practices, aiming to create spaces for encounter, reflection, and empathetic connection.
Our work unfolds between aesthetic exploration and conceptual inquiry through performative and embodied practices. We investigate how the body engages with and reconfigures space through perception. Garments act as carriers of identity, bridging fashion and performance as intertwined languages.
We engage with territory, nature, and communities, using situated and adaptive methodologies informed by care, slowness, and presence. Objects, gestures, and collective actions function as relational mediators, activating shared memory and forms of belonging.
These processes aim to generate temporary communities and micro-utopian spaces, where affective and political forms of resistance can emerge within everyday life.
Free Publicity
Video, Color/Sound, 3’56’’
2024
Group exhibithion “ALEA”, Laboratorio Multimedia (held by Daniele Zoico with the collaboration of Eleonora Bonino, IUAV University of Venice
Companies that fuel oppression and genocide, financing violence against the Palestinian people. This video, created with a video synthesizer that distorts image and signal, collects fragments of advertisements and brand messages that continue to fund Israel. The audio, composed of sounds from the bombings in Gaza, exposes the critique and connection, highlighting the complicity of those who consume.
The advertisements in the video also prompt reflection on capitalism and mass communication, tools that often convey messages steeped in sexism and masked violence. A clear link is drawn between the Western world, with its consumerism driven by capitalism, and the Eastern world, where genocides financed by these same Western economies are taking place.
In the end, the critique becomes personal: a direct call to our collective responsibility. IUAV University of Venice, which hosts this screening, is tied to companies supporting regimes we cannot ignore. Complicity is everywhere. We cannot remain neutral.