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.

Lozio Settembre 2024



    book
    127 pages, 15,5x21,5 cm
    2024 - 2025
Project supported by “Falìa* AIR 2024”, curated by Alice Vangelisti
Design by Michele Bellinaso
This publication emerges as a testament to a participatory practice aimed at exploring the relational fabric of a small community through shared memory and storytelling. In the dispersed municipality of Lozio, where around 350 people live divided among four hamlets, we propose a project that values the personal stories of local women, weaving their narratives into a network that reveals the invisible social fabric of this community.
    The work consists of a book and a collection of “fairy tales” born from a participatory process: each woman tells an anecdote about another one she has chosen, takes a photograph of her in her home, fills out a form with biographical data, and donates a piece of fabric. The storyteller decides how to portray the person she has chosen, selecting the pose and the setting—a gesture that reveals her way of seeing her. This becomes a symbolic act of identity transfer, in which the signature and photograph represent the image of a woman seen through the eyes of another. Each signature, each name, is a gesture of identification that transcends the mere bureaucratic act, transforming the objective description into an experience of empathetic immersion.
    The project thus becomes a living archive, a collective narrative that not only documents but transforms and renews the perception of self and of the other. The act of telling and portraying becomes an experience of exchange: the observer is in turn observed, the storyteller is in turn told. The material element plays a fundamental role in this research: fabric, writing, and signature become instruments of identity transfer— tangible signs of a relationship that unfolds in space and time. Each gesture, each trace left by the participants becomes a fragment of collective history, revealing how identity is a process in constant transformation.

Included in the group exhibition Falìa* AIR 2024 — Lozio (BS), 2025
Featured in the official residency catalogue
Selected for the second edition of NUSCA (Nothing Until Something Comes Along), Independent Festival dedicated to Cinema and Publishing — Venice, 2025