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.

This is the place where we meet



    book
    146 pages, 29,7x19 cm
    2025 - 2026

Project supported by MAC Studi d’artista 2025/26
Design by Michele Bellinaso
This project develops a methodology to adapt a participatory practice to the specificities of a territory, with the aim of reactivating a sense of community and generating relational spaces grounded in listening, presence, and shared experiences.
  The research begins with a theoretical inquiry into participatory practices and identifies emotional geography as a situated approach, capable of activating relationships between individuals, communities, and environments; affective geography is conceived as a form of relational mapping and it becomes a tool for strengthening the collective dimension within social contexts.
  Ritual is approached as a shared relational practice that reconnects bodies, spaces, objects, and memory. In this perspective, the assembly emerges as a participatory ritual device capable of activating processes of identification and territorial belonging.
  The methodology is adaptable to different contexts according to their territorial and social specificities. It operates through the intersection of body, object, symbol, and space as practical tools, placing slowness, care, and presence at the center as forms of resistance to productivity-driven logics.
  By intertwining participatory practices, geographies, and relational spaces, the work proposes the assembly as an affective and political form of resistance grounded in memory and recognition, and applies the methodology in an urban context, investigating the role of space in shaping relational structures.