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.
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.