Petticoat Government

Artists

Denicolai & Provoost, Antoinette Jattiot, Nord and Speculoos

Press release

National Participation - Belgium

For the 2024 Venice Biennale, Petticoat Government’s members are proposing a multidisciplinary scenario based on existing folkloric giants from various communities in Belgium, France, Spain. Their performative journeys in the direction of Italy, passing through the Resia Pass on 9 March 2024 and then returning to Charleroi and Dunkirk in 2025, inject a joyful disturbance into reality through the variety of plays of scale and tensions between the human and non-human, landscape and architecture, borders and their transgression. 

Unlike a closed work, the Belgian Pavilion is imagined as a place of passage, with a kaleidoscope perspective. By way of the place given to orality and the co-construction of stories, and the “above ground” aerial and sound staging of the gigantic figures, it is the origin of contemporary mythologies and centuries-old stories that is interrogated.

Commissioner: Wallonia-Brussels Federation