Belgium 2024
The project mixes genres and attitudes as means for questioning complexity and for entering into contact with the worlds with which it relates.
Title: petticoat government
Commissioner: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Artists: Denicolai & Provoost, Antoinette Jattiot, Nord and Speculoos
For the 60th Venice Biennale, Belgium presents “petticoat government“, a party to which all are invited. Inspired by the living base of popular narrative, petticoat government diverts the symbolic and political weight of the giant as object. Since May 2023, on both sides of the Franco-Belgian border, various brother-and-sisterhoods, committees and associations, all guardians of folkloric giants have been approached by “petticoat government” collective. In a collaborative way they have seized a scenario that plays on scale and tensions between the human being, the pavilion, the landscape and the gigantic.
VENUE: Giardini
OPENING TIMES:
Apr 20 – Sept 25 Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm, Sept 27 – Nov 24 Tue – Sun, 10am – 6pm
