For My Best Family

“For My Best Family”, a new exhibition project conceived by artist Meriem Bennani and commissioned by Fondazione Prada, is on view in its Milan venue from 31 October 2024 to 24 February 2025. 

Meriem Bennani (Morocco, 1988) explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of fantastical imagery and humor, juxtaposing and mixing the language ofYouTube videos, reality TV, documentaries, animation, and high-production aesthetics. Throughout her career, she has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues, and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies.

Bennani develops a multi-sensory environment for Fondazione Prada. It unfolds in the two levels of the Podium, the main exhibition building of the Milan headquarters. Combining anew 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.