Chiara Camoni's Italy Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Chiara Camoni's Italy Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, titled 'Con te con tutto,' resonates with Koyo Kouoh's overarching exhibition 'In Minor Keys,' which emphasizes intuitive, manual, and craft-based gestures over conceptual art. Camoni's installation features a crowd of female figures sculpted in clay with natural materials like flowers, leaves, and fragments of other sculptures, evoking a sense of communal female subjectivity. These 'tree-women' embody transformation and growth, with one figure holding two ceramic bowls by Fausto Melotti. The pavilion also includes accumulations of unfinished sculptures and materials, connecting to the surrounding garden trees. Elsewhere in the Biennale, Magdalena Campos Pons presents a large portrait of Toni Morrison and Koyo Kouoh, surrounded by magnolia bouquets, and performs a dance at the Teatro delle Tese accompanied by Kamal Malak's music, concluding with Kouoh's statement: 'I believe in energy that does not end with death.' The review draws parallels to Titian's 'Assunta' in Venice's Frari Church, suggesting art's enduring energy.