Miu Miu was the official partner of the Art Basel Paris Public Program with ‘Tales & Tellers’, a special project conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and showcased at the Palais D'Iena from October 16 to 20, 2024.
Every film commission - Miu Miu Women’s Tales short films and videos taken from the artistic interventions from runway shows since Spring/Summer 2022 - is represented by a character, directly extracted from these collaborations, inside Palais d'Iéna transformed into a set of multiple experiences.
During the run of the show, the whole collection of MiuMiu short films was screened in the parliament of the Palais d’léna. Simultaneously, the space was continuously activated by a performance.
‘Tales & Tellers’ also included a programming of conversations.
PANEL CONVERSATIONS PROGRAM
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Laura Citarella, Ava DuVernay, Catherine Martin and Carla Simón
In conversation with: Elvira Dyangani Ose
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Meriem Bennani, Janicza Bravo, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Chloë Sevigny and Chui Mui Tan
In conversation with: Sophia Al Maria
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
Lila Avilés, Hailey Gates, Geumhyung Jeong, Shuang Li and Celia Rowlson-Hall
In conversation with: Cécile B. Evans
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Zoe R. Cassavetes, So Yong Kim and Crystal Moselle
In conversation with: Małgorzata Szumowska
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
Haifaa Al-Mansour, Massy Tadjedin and Isabel Sandoval
In conversation with: Elvira Dyangani Ose
PANEL CONVERSATIONS
Since its inception, Miu Miu has explored femininity, vanity and the female gaze via women narrating women. This has initiated a rich, thought-provoking analysis of how women view themselves and the world around them. Hence, in 2011, the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series began. It offered female filmmakers a significant platform to present their unique views on the plurality of womanhood. Taking a comprehensive reappraisal of ‘vanity’ as a point of departure, the celebrated short-film series most importantly afforded opportunities for these filmmakers to challenge and overcome through their practice.
Tales & Tellers Conversations brought together all these different filmmakers and artists to exchange about their lives and work, their adversities, aspirations, and dreams. These Conversations take us on personal journeys, investigating the ever-shifting concepts of contemporary life and their roots — whilst returning to a deep understanding of what womanhood means today. Furthermore, the panels encourage us all to appreciate the individuals behind any story or narrative, prompting us to reflect on the intended audience for those stories and the potential for spectatorship to become tellers themselves.
Goshka Macuga is a Polish multidisciplinary artist, working in London. Macuga’s practice is based on historical and archival research. The role of a curator, historian, and exhibition designer has been often attached to her practice. As an artist she questions historiography, political structures, and the pressing issues of our time as a form of institutional critique. She has staged solo shows at galleries around the world, including New Museum, New York, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Tate Britain, London, Fondazione Prada, Milan and Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai. Macuga was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008 and included in Documenta 2012. She was elected a Royal Academican in 2024.
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
Elvira Dyangani Ose’s is the current director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Her work has often focused on new forms of environment and platforms produced by artists in the absence of conventional institutions and contexts. She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, an advisor at Tate Modern Advisory Council, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada She has previously served, among other roles, as curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha -Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and senior curator at Creative Time in New York. Dyangani Ose She studied for a Doctorate in History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University in New York, an MA in Theory and History of Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, and a BA in Art History from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
