For My Best Family - Meriem Bennani

Fondazione Prada, ISBN 9788887029925,
Pb, 260 pgs, 17 x 23cm
Language: English & Italian
Acqn. 36508
In Stock

£65.00
"For My Best Family" is the new exhibition project conceived by artist Meriem Bennani and commissioned by Fondazione Prada. As Bennani explains, "A central theme of 'For My Best Family' is how to be together, questioning where we start and stop as people. It unfolds in the two levels of the Podium, the main exhibition building of the Milan headquarters. Combining a new site-specific, large-scale installation with an art film co-directed with Orian Barki, "For My Best Family" explores ways of being together in public and intimate socio-political settings. This project is the most ambitious work Bennani has ever done both in terms of complexity, size and the length of the creative process, which took more than two years to complete. It is part of a line of programming that Fondazione Prada has been pursuing for more than thirty years, involving collaborations with international artists to create utopian projects that are both conceptually and aesthetically complex. Introduction by Miuccia Prada. Conversation between Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, Niccolo Gravina, Mario Mainetti. Texts by Daniel Arnold, Maia Tellit Hawad, Chrissie Iles, Norman M. Klein, Emily LaBarge, Lars LaLa and Abdellah Taia.