Samantha Pellarini is a visual artist and researcher whose work inhabits the spaces between water and land, human and more-than-human, observation and embodiment. Her practice is grounded in a self-developed Rhizoaquatic methodology, where the branching, adaptive rhythms of water shape both the sites she engages with and the ways her work unfolds.
Performance lies at the heart of her practice, serving as a method of reading the landscape and a way to inhabit environments, attune to ecological processes, and allow bodies, materials, and non-humans to co-create. She designs narratives, costumes, and frameworks that invite participants into the landscape, enabling interactions between humans, non-humans, and environments to emerge organically. She works with scenography, installation, sculpture, costume, and film, shaping experiences that arise from the rhythms of water, soil, and living bodies, where learning unfolds through presence and adaptation.
Working with communities, ecological practitioners, and researchers, she explores resilience, care, and transformation. Her projects ask how humans might inhabit a changing world in relation with other forms of life, inviting audiences to sense interdependence and imagine new ways of belonging, adapting, and living within ecosystems.
