Camille Lemille
The Biennale’s Invisible Workers
2026
KIOSK provided financial support to Camille Lemille for four new editions of her publication The Biennale’s Invisible Workers (in French, English, and now also Dutch and Italian).
About the project
Ticket controllers paid €3.80 an hour, cultural mediators paid a pittance, security guards working 6 days a week, 8 hours a day, with no lunch break and paid less than €800 a month…
Camille Lemille invites you to meet the people who work behind the scenes of the Venice Biennale: security guards, ticket controllers, cleaning staff, mediators, guides, and many others. Yet, remarkably, very few of them are directly employed by the Biennale. For her self-published 𝘉𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴, Lemille spent two months listening, asking questions, and joining a discussion group with these workers to explore their experiences of precarious contracts and poor working conditions.
The book gives voice to their experiences through a performative reading drawn from their real-life stories, shedding light on the working conditions behind one of the world’s most prominent art events.
To purchase a copy, please visit Camille Lemille's website: camillelemille.be. French, Dutch, English and Italian version available.
