Pig to Attend Nobel Ceremony in Historic First
UPPSALA, SWEDEN – In an unprecedented move, a pig has been selected to attend the 2025 Nobel Prize ceremony, sparking both curiosity and debate. The pig, whose identity remains undisclosed, will be wearing a dress previously worn by Birgit Friggebo at the 1992 Nobel banquet. The unusual selection is part of a larger artistic project exploring themes of female depiction and societal judgment,spearheaded by amanda Romare.
Romare secured Friggebo’s dress after contacting both Friggebo and Princess Madeleine,ultimately choosing the former’s garment.”I googled both Birgit’s and Madde’s dresses and could tell that there were a lot of breasts. However, they were prettier than I thought, not least Maddes, but since I doubted that I would be able to get in touch with her, I called Birgit instead. Asked if I could try hers,” Romare explained. Friggebo readily agreed, handing over the dress in a brief exchange at her Bromma home.
The project stems from Romare’s reflection on media coverage of Friggebo’s dress following the 1992 Nobel event. While some publications criticized the dress - swedish Dam ranking it among dresses “that will hardly go down in history as the most celebrated,” and Home’s Journal including it in a list of “Five terrible fads at the Nobel party” – others defended Friggebo’s choice. Camilla Thulin, writing on the blog “Oss grantanter mellan” in 2013, argued, ”It is tragic that women in power are bullied when they dare to be female.”
Romare, inspired by Thulin’s commentary, felt the dress deserved a re-evaluation. “And when I now saw the dress in real life, I mostly thought of that comment. Because the dress even looked prettier than what I saw in the pictures. At least in the bag,” she said. She intends to try the dress on at her grandmother’s house in Uppsala to confirm its suitability for the pig’s appearance at the 2025 Nobel ceremony. The project aims to challenge perceptions of beauty, power, and the frequently enough-harsh scrutiny faced by women in the public eye.
