Annamaria Ajmone's 'Canti Fossili' at Venice Biennale's Italian Pavilion

Annamaria Ajmone presented 'Canti Fossili' (2026) at the Italian Pavilion during the Venice Biennale, as part of Chiara Camoni's exhibition 'Con te con tutto' curated by Cecilia Canziani, within the Dialoghi project by Fiammetta Griccioli and Lucia Aspesi. The performance featured an ensemble of five performers—Annamaria Ajmone, Veza, Ha Kyoon, Emma, and Toni—who used fragmented vocalizations, laments, and slow movements to create an ephemeral architecture of affective and tactile configurations. The work explored voice and mouth as sensitive interfaces between bodies and environment, resisting fixed language and fossilization. Ajmone's approach to dance is instinctive yet disciplined, circulating among performers without belonging to any single body. Costumes by designer Fabio Quaranta amplified movement. The performance invoked Guy Cools' concept of 'performing mourning,' maintaining a relationship with absence. The audience experienced instability, unable to capture a single frame. Ajmone's work suggests an untimely language directed outward, not toward self-display, in a contemporary context often marked by self-exhibition.