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Miranda July: F.A.M.I.L.Y.

Prada presents the exhibition “Miranda July: F.A.M.I.L.Y.”, organized with the support of Fondazione Prada at Prada Aoyama building designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The first solo show in Tokyo by the American artist, filmmaker, and writer Miranda July is realized in conjunction with her exhibition, “Miranda July: New Society”, on view at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada in Milan until 14 October 2024.

 

PRADA AOYAMA

9 May - 26 August 2024

5-2-6 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Monday to Sunday: 11am - 8pm

 

SENSITIVE CONTENT
This exhibition includes images that some visitors may find disturbing. Minors should be accompanied by an adult during the visit.

The Tokyo exhibition, curated by Mia Locks, features the July’s latest work F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), a multi-channel video installation based on a yearlong collaboration with seven strangers via Instagram. Participants send video responses to a series of prompts from July, who then brings them into her studio using the “cut out” tool from a free editing app designed for social-media content. The result is a series of surreal performances in which July and her participants explore intimacy and boundaries through a completely new physical language.

“With F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), I am trying to manually, laboriously fulfill what I see as one promise of Instagram: to be looked at so lovingly that we finally feel okay,” says Miranda July.

 

“This is July’s preferred mode of working: she initiates, and controls to some degree, an exchange but also welcomes other people’s desires and actions within it. She is experimenting with sharing power and control in a playful way,” explains Mia Locks. The Milan exhibition, also curated by Locks, spans three decades of July’s career, from the early 1990s until today, including short film, performance, installation works and the debut of F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You).

 

The Milan and Tokyo projects are accompanied by an illustrated publication of the Quaderni series, published by Fondazione Prada.

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Raised in Berkeley, California, she lives in Los Angeles. July wrote, directed, and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know (winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance; re-released by The Criterion Collection in 2020). Her most recent movie is Kajillionaire (2020). July’s artworks include the website Learning to Love You More (with Harrell Fletcher), Eleven Heavy Things, New Society, Somebody, and an interfaith second-hand shop located in a luxury department store (presented by Artangel). A limited edition of her most recent work, Services, was produced by MACK Books in 2022. A monograph of her work to date was published in April 2020. Her books include It Chooses You, The First Bad Man, and No One Belongs Here More Than You (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award). July’s fiction has been published in twenty-three countries and has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Harper’s. Her newest novel, All Fours, is forthcoming in May 2024 from Riverhead Books.

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