In the Pavilion at the Giardini, Petticoat Government presents giants from various communities in Belgium, as well as from France and Spain.
They left Charleroi and Dunkerque last spring, crossed the alps, stopped in Padova, and eventually made it to Venice, to the Biennale, gently cruising the Lagoon waters on a barge. They are the ‘giants’ that live in the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, and will until November 24. Petticoat Government – this is the name of the exhibit – are folk colossuses coming from different Belgian communities as well as France and Spain that Belgian artists picked to reflect on the obsolescence of borders, both geographical and metaphorical.
