The article announces Chiara Camoni's project "Con te con tutto" for the Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, curated by Cecilia Canziani. The project emphasizes relational and communal practices, rejecting the identity-driven rhetoric of national representation. It stems from a fifteen-year dialogue between artist and curator, incorporating workshops, shared readings, and collaborative works like "La Giusta Misura." The pavilion is conceived as an ecosystem of artworks, texts, and activations rather than a linear exhibition, with a catalog designed as a critical reader.
This matters because the Italian Pavilion's approach challenges the anachronistic model of national pavilions at a time when the Biennale is increasingly read as a geopolitical barometer. By focusing on care, proximity, and coexistence, the project redefines the pavilion as a space of possibility rather than symbolic compensation. In an edition marked by the near absence of Italian artists in the international exhibition, "Con te con tutto" asserts complexity as a political value, transforming institutional fragility into an opportunity to question the role of art and curation in the present.