installation and performance art
I create immersive performances and site-specific installations that merge body,
sound, and landscape. My work explores themes of the sacred, nature, femininity,
and audience interaction. Each piece becomes a collective ritual where
time slows down and space transforms into a living experience
The Guardian of the Waters and the Fireflies
Artwork and concept by Laura Rambelli
Worker: Consorzio della Bonifica
Since the dawn of time, the Serpent has been revered as a sacred symbol of transformation, healing, and primal energy. Emerging from the earth’s depths, it embodies the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
At Golfera Park, the installation comes to life: a sinuous serpent — its ceramic lotus flowers mounted on steel stems — emerges from the still waters of the lake. The colors shift across the rainbow spectrum, from red (Mother Earth) to violet (Spirituality), expressing the soul’s journey.
Here, “The Guardian of the Waters” flows gracefully, bringing harmony to the hidden forces beneath the surface. In summer nights, fireflies appear, evanescent messengers between reality and dreams, completing a mystical, emotional path of renewal.
Enlightened mutations
I begin with the observation of an anonymous Tantric painting, an image that invites us to seek the light within and allow it to expand. From this inspiration, my creative process unfolds, combining meditation, study, and artistic practice. I create an immersive performance where the body moves in hypnotic circles on a golden mandala, inside a symbolic scenography, accompanied by live music with Tibetan singing bowls and voice. Through this work, I aim to express the constant presence of an inner energy available to all. It is a light that remains lit even in times of darkness. With the body, colors, and staging, I share how I perceive this energy and how it can be revealed. It doesn’t need to be understood by the mind, one simply needs to allow themselves to be moved by the experience.
The viewer enters an altered space where time slows down and attention turns inward. I offer an experience that awakens a different perception of the self, without the need for rational explanation. The circular movement, the overhead perspective, the symbolic colors, and the music create a threshold: the audience may cross it and access a deeper level. This is not just a performance, it is an invitation to remember what already resides within each of us.
PELO PUDICO
Site-specific installation for the “Fontanone” roundabout in Faenza (RA) Italy
“Pelo Pudico” is the land art installation I created for the art event “Pelosa” organized by Fatti d’Arte. The work is made using natural materials – bamboo poles, rope, and hemp fiber – representing a clothesline with three pairs of underwear hanging. From each pair, a mass of red-dyed hemp fiber cascades downward, evoking the image of pubic hair.
The title speaks to both modesty and hair.
Hair is what has long protected the human body, yet today it’s often seen as something to remove. But what are we truly exposing?
Modesty, in the sense of restraint and chastity, has long suppressed my connection to the natural instincts of the body. I learned to hide my senses and emotions – even from myself.
The project began as a deeply personal idea, rooted in a dream I had: I saw myself washing dirty underwear. Psychologically, it reflected a desire to hide my femininity and sexual instincts – feelings I had been ashamed of, especially in adolescence, when one is often unheard or misunderstood.
That dream became a graphic-style painting: a clothesline with three clean pairs of underwear. My artistic process is often a ritual of translating the unconscious, and that dream and painting became a kind of guide – tracing a path toward this new installation.
Now, with Pelosa, I return to that dream and close a circle.
Sexuality is creative, imaginative energy. When repressed, it can turn into anger or illness; when expressed with love, it brings joy, health, and gratitude.
Water ConSeQuences
Performance art by Laura Rambelli
Soundscapes by Lorenzo Penazzi
A performative journey through gestures and sounds of life with – and without – water: flooded echoes, dry silences, frightened pulses. Water’s vibrations resonate through the human body, leaving behind deep, sometimes indelible, sonic traces.
Floods, landslides, droughts, cloudbursts, and overflowing rivers are becoming increasingly frequent. These phenomena raise urgent questions about the human impact on our land and the mistakes we continue to make.
In the midst of it all, time tightens – like a syncopated rhythm – offering no space to recover, only to react.
Goodnight Arena: tales and gestures from the lantern
The Goodnight Lantern
A performance by Laura Rambelli and Elisa Branzanti
A cistern becomes a lantern.
A hidden space lights up with shadows and glows, whispers and echoes, gestures and sounds.
It transforms into a threshold of encounter—fragile, fleeting, and magical.
Through a small porthole, the viewer is invited to peek inside and receive a quiet gift:
a word, a movement, a sound—something small and intimate to carry into the night.
“Goodnight Arena” is a poetic closure to the shared experience within the Arena delle Balle di Paglia at Cotignola, (RA) – Italy.
A gentle farewell, a symbolic transition that guides each person back to their bicycle, their car, their home.
A sensorial trace remains: a sound, a flicker of light, a presence.
Something tender that stays with you—even after the performance ends.
Vital Breath
Land art by Laura Rambelli
Wind is breath – the pure expression of vital energy. In constant motion, it shapes landscapes just as inner transformation shapes the self.
Vital Breath is a land art sculpture created for BoscoArteStenico prize: a 3.7-meter-high vortex of woven branches, forming a spiraling typhoon. From dark to light, the branches twist upward, symbolizing energy in motion — penetrating, reshaping, and regenerating, like roots through the earth or wind through cracks.
This organic structure captures the deep connection between humans and nature, where even the invisible forces leave lasting marks.
The Shedding of the Snake Goddess
Podere Pantaleone, Bagnacavallo Ravenna (Italy)
Site-specific performance/installation – 2018
A large red snake winds through the natural landscape of Podere Pantaleone, composed of wooden rings salvaged from fallen trees. Laid on the ground and coiling around tree trunks, this serpentine form evokes the feminine archetype and speaks of rebirth and transformation. At night, LED lights or glow-in-the-dark paint reveal its path, making it a luminous presence in the dark.
An artwork that rises from the earth and returns to it — in harmony with nature, change, and memory.
Part of Terrena – Drawing in the Landscape.
deep sleep
“An artistic and sensory journey to reconnect with the Earth, the body, and the self.”
“Deep Sleep” is a Land Art installation combined with a personal performance, inspired by the practice of Yoga Nidra. Within a natural shelter — a hut, a cave, or a site-specific structure — each participant is invited to lie down and surrender to a 12-minute guided deep relaxation.
Through voice and stillness, the breath slows, the mind quiets, and the body merges with the Earth.
This one-on-one experience invites the participant to reconnect with their own rhythm, in harmony with the slow, grounding pulse of nature. Inside the shelter, built with natural materials gathered on site, a symbolic journey begins — exploring femininity, presence, and embodied awareness.
A chance to rediscover one’s “inner Earth,” both physically and spiritually.
First created in 2018, “Deep Sleep” has been presented in various natural settings and cultural events, including:
Arena delle Balle di Paglia (Cotignola, Ravenna) IT
Wild Plants Garden (Syracuse)
Rocca Brancaleone (Ravenna), with the site-specific performance “Che Gender?!”
in collaboration with Paola Li Vecchi
“Deep Sleep” welcomes all gender identities and is adaptable to various natural contexts.
Everything is created, destroyed, transformed
A performance by Laura Rambelli for Equilibri Precari, a ceramic installation project by artist Paola Bandini, presented at Museo Carlo Zauli (Faenza), Pescherie della Rocca Estense (Lugo), and Rocca di Bagnara (RA).
A symbolic act of transformation: fragile ceramic forms are broken through performance, then reborn as architectural elements. Art meets matter in a poetic cycle of destruction and renewal.
Part of the Ceramic Performance Festival, supporting the post-flood restoration of Museo Zauli.
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