Rinacque il Sogno di Camille

In Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway introduces Camille as a speculative, collective figure—one who emerges across generations in a future shaped by multispecies alliances, where kinship is no longer grounded in biology but in shared care and comp(h)ost. Camille represents a post-anthropocentric mode of existence, where life regenerates through entangled ecologies and reciprocal becoming.

In the work Rinacque il sogno di Camille (literally, Camille’s Dream Was Reborn), the artists envision a world and a cycle beyond the boundaries of the individual or species—a dreamscape that is both surreal and strikingly familiar, resonating with something we unconsciously recognize. The Italian word Rinacque, which the literal meaning is “(it) was reborn,” is not a simple resurrection. It signals a return, an emergence, a phonetic evocation of water— "acqua" — of the amniotic, of the origin.

Yet no individual is reborn. The rebirth invoked here is only possible by transcending the very idea of individuality, of species, of discrete being. It implies a divine, impersonal presence—Life itself—reentering its own cycle through ever-changing forms. This is a cosmology where creative consciousness manifests through matter, pulls the threads of the Whole, and is itself the Whole: an ongoing rhythm of dissolution and re-emergence, of composting and dreaming anew.