Tales & Tellers is an immersive, site-specific art project and series of screenings and conversations. Influenced by Miu Miu’s collaborations across the spectrum of filmmaking and art, Tales & Tellers is conceived by artist Goshka Macuga and convened by curator Elvira Dyangani Ose, and staged at the Palais d’Iéna, Paris from 16-20 October 2024 as part of Art Basel Paris, Public Program Official partner.

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.

Women’s Tales sees womanhood as an ongoing – process poetic, political, imaginative -whose role in formulating contemporary societies is often overlooked or effaced. Women’s Tales presents myriad perspectives in the shape of stories and genres. Establishing female voices incinema runs in parallel to a more than century long struggle for women to establish their position within culture and society. Using the short form format, the Tales tell us what needs to be shown to appreciate female life in all its complex, joyous, aestheticized plurality. Alongside the Tales, over the past three years, the biannual Miu Miu runway presentations at the Palais d’Iéna in Paris have become vehicles for further dialogues with female artists, expanding Miuccia Prada’s interest in working across disciplines , through conceptual site specific installation s and moving images . The fashion shows provid e a stage for a n artistic statement that takes advantage of the notion of fashion as an “instant language”. This highlights the potential of art to go beyond the here and n ow of the artistic experience.

Tales & Tellers conversations bring 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.

MIU MIU PANEL CONVERSATIONS PROGRAM

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
11.00 AM
Laura Citarella, Ava DuVernay, Catherine Martin and Carla Simón
In conversation with: Elvira Dyangani Ose

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
03.00 PM
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
06.00 PM
Lila Avilés, Hailey Gates, Geumhyung Jeong, Shuang Li and Celia Rowlson Hall
In conversation with: Cécile B. Evans

Thursday, October 17th, 2024
11.00 AM
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Zoe R. Cassavetes, So Yong Kim and Crystal Moselle
In conversation with: Małgorzata Szumowska

Thursday, October 17th, 2024
03.00 PM
Haifaa Al Mansour, Massy Tadjedin and Isabel Sandoval
In conversation with: Elvira Dyangani Ose

For more information on Miu Miu “Tales & Tellers” and to register to the panel conversations visit miumiu.com