Fondazione Prada - December 2024
Fondazione Prada - December 2024
Fondazione Prada - December 2024
"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.
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Monte di Pieta
Fondazione Prada 2024 ISBN 9788887029895 Acqn 36460
Hb 13x17cm 732pp col ills £82
The layered history of the 18th-century palazzo Ca' Corner della Regina - venue of the Monte di
Pieta (Mount of Piety) of Venice from 1834 to 1969 and since 2011 permanent venue of
Fondazione Prada - is Buchel's framework for constructing an articulated network of spatial,
economic, and cultural references. "Monte di Pieta" is a deep dive into the notion of debt as the
root of human society and the primary vehicle by which political and cultural power is exercised.
Historically, a crossroads of commercial and artistic exchange and intermingling, the city of
Venice is an ideal context for exploring the relationships between these complex topics and the
deep dynamics of contemporary society.
Texts by Rosa Anna Di Lella, Fernando Filipponi, William N. Goetzmann, Meike Hoffmann,
Maurizio Lazzarato, Matteo Lucchetti, Clara Mattei, Sven Spieker, Elettra Stimilli, Valentina Tanni,
Michael Thompson, Loretta Wurtenberger and Paolo Zannoni.
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