Chiara Camoni's exhibition "Con te con tutto" (With You with Everything) opens at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2026, housed in the Tese delle Vergini. Curated by Cecilia Canziani, the show presents an immersive landscape of sculptures assembled from organic materials collected by the artist during walks in the Apuan forests. Camoni's practice emphasizes communal making and encounter, drawing on feminist philosophy from thinkers like Donna Haraway and Silvia Federici, and blurs the line between sculpture and performance.
The exhibition matters because it engages directly with the Venice Biennale's theme of encounter and sharing, curated by Koyo Kouoh, while also risking what the reviewer calls "archaeologism and overload." Camoni's work represents a significant strand of contemporary Italian art that uses archaeological evocation and ritualistic imagery, raising questions about the balance between poetic intensity and visual saturation in large-scale pavilion presentations.