LOVELY-RATZ About

Projects
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.

Lookalikes




    performance, photography
    2023 - ongoing

Group exhibithion “supportovivo”, Spazio Punch, Venice 2024
Lookalikes is a performative practice where unknown men (he/him pronouns) of different ages are invited to confront concepts of identity, authenticity, and resemblance.
   Resemblance can be interpreted in various ways and can be influenced by a range of factors, including physical, gestural, vocal, and behavioral characteristics. The practice analyzes the subjective interpretation of the men involved, who are asked a question that admits only two possible answers:

"Linda or Ambra, who do you resemble?"

Following their response, they are asked to assume the identity of the chosen person, creating an identity transfer through the act of wearing the clothes that person has on.  This gesture explores the possibility of resembling a stranger, reflecting on the meaning of "wearing someone else's shoes," on the elements that constitute the identity of two different people, and what determines their resemblance.
   The practice takes place inside the homes of the men involved: they explore the identity of another person while maintaining their own, remaining in their personal, intimate, and private space, which is made accessible to two strangers. Through a self-certification document confirming the participation of over 20 men, it is possible to retrieve their personal data, further breaking the boundary that identifies them as strangers.
   In the context of the performance, two people with different physical and ethnic characteristics offer themselves as the object of choice. This initiates a dialogue about the nature of choice itself, highlighting the complexity of visual and cultural identity, how people can perceive each other, and the criteria that define resemblance.


print on photographic paper 20 x 27 cm / print on A4 sheets