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.
Ora, tra un po’, con calma, devo farlo
Group performance “Ora, tra un po’, con calma, devo farlo”, Laboratorio di Moda e Performance (held by Jacopo Miliani with the collaboration of Stefano Mudu), Magazzini Ligabue, Venice
Backlit, sheltered from clear and secure images, we found ourselves under a sheet, a blanket, a covering. It was like arranging to meet without a precise time.
Whoever arrived first would start counting to two hundred and then return to zero, right at zero.
We counted with the certainty that sooner or later we would all be there underneath, under that piece of fabric that took shape through our bodies.
Performer: Linda Pietrobelli / Bri Zamengo / Mattia Biserni / Gabriele Bonzanini / Maela Codia / Chris Manassero / Francesco Fochi / Vladimir Naydonov / Chiara Pegoraro / Carlotta Savio