LOVELY-RATZ

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.

Ritual

Group exhibithion “ALEA”, Laboratorio Multimedia (held by Daniele Zoico with the collaboration of Eleonora Bonino, IUAV University of Venice
The video focuses on the act of cutting hair, a gesture that carries within symbolic and cultural significance: a sign of resistance, change, and self-transformation.
The space where the haircut takes place, becomes a liminal site, a zone of transformation and uncertainty that opens spaces for self-determination; it is a space that separates the “before” from the “after,” where identity is redefined.
The voiceover is a synthetic voice created with A.I., reading a Palestinian wartime bulletin, inspired by the daily readings held during the academic boycott in support of Free Palestine. This collective ritual of resistance intersects with the ritual dimension of the video, drawing a parallel to the uncertainty and transformation inherent in the liminal phase.
The clips in the video allow the action to be understood and perceived, yet lack a clear logical sequence. This intentional fragmentation enhances the ambiguity between two dimensions, further emphasized by the overexposure applied throughout the video, creating a disconnection from tangible reality.
The video contrasts the care associated with the haircutting ritual and the violence evoked by the wartime bulletin. This tension highlights the fragility and complexity of transitions, questioning the relationship between personal transformation and broader political dimensions.