Venice Biennale 2024 | Foreigners Everywhere | Belgium Pavilion | Giardini

PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT
Denicolai & Provoost , Antoinette Jattiot, Nord, Spec Uloos

Cross-mixing art, curating, architecture, typography and cartography, the collective displaces the traditional exhibition format, in a collaborative and horizontal mode, through its successive chapters and its fictional potential. The members of the collective gathered for the Biennale, with as their theme the physical and symbolic crossing of boundaries, are linked by long-term collaborations and their roles as intermediaries and critics inside and outside the field of art, from which they interrogate the way we view collective, popular, alternative organisations and their modes of sharing.

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.

20.04 – 24.11.2024