Video interview with Cecilia Canziani and Chiara Camoni, curator and artist of the Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The article is a video interview with curator Cecilia Canziani and artist Chiara Camoni about the Italy Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Camoni's installation, titled "Con te e con tutto," features large, monumental figures called "Sisters" that evoke ancient yet contemporary presences, created through a slow, collective, and materially responsive process. The pavilion is divided into two spaces: a vertical, sacred-like area and a horizontal, convivial one that includes a sub-exhibition called "Dialoghi." The project builds on years of friendship and collaboration between Canziani and Camoni, and involves a fluid community of international students, weavers, midwives, and artists working at Camoni's studio in Fabbiano, on the Apuan Alps.

This matters because the Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is a flagship national presentation that often sets the tone for broader curatorial and artistic trends. Camoni's emphasis on feminine, collective, and slow-making practices—rooted in care, materiality, and shared time—offers a deliberate counterpoint to the spectacle-driven pace of the Biennale. The project continues a lineage of recent Italian pavilions that prioritize contemplative, immersive experiences over consumption, reinforcing a shift in contemporary art toward relational and process-based practices. The interview provides rare insight into the curatorial and artistic thinking behind one of the most anticipated national presentations of the 2026 Biennale.