MIU MIU AS ART BASEL’S PUBLIC PROGRAMME OFFICIAL PARTNER PRESENTS ‘TALES & TELLERS’

Recently, Miu Miu was announced as the official partner of Art Basel’s public programme. As part of this collaboration, Miu Miu introduces ‘Tales & Tellers,’ a major project at Palais d’Iéna headquarters of France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council – as well as the site of the Miu Miu runway shows.  The project is conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Musea d’art Contemporani de Barcelona.

‘Tales & Tellers’ draws its title from the conveyance of knowledge, of histories and stories.  A story can change minds, alter courses, shift lives, and give us a new understanding of the world. Here, the tales are individual, but their tellers are multitude: the directors themselves, the actors bringing their characters to life. In each instance, women are given agency to tell their stories.

The project brings together a multiverse of narratives, but also the knowledge that thrives from them. Every collaboration is represented in the show by a character, a hero or an anti-hero, directly extracted from these films and artistic collaborations. These figures in turn become the films’ custodians - agents of the narrative. Reenacted by real-life actors, alongside video projection of the original film, these tellers multiply their tales, their appearance serving as physical re-tellings of fragments of the story alongside the original. 

‘Tales & Tellers’ will also include screenings of all commissioned short films, together with a programming of conversations: influenced by Miu Miu’s collaborations across the spectrum of filmmaking, art and fashion, the project draws together a myriad of narratives and storytelling exploring ever-transforming ideas of femininity. In turn, Macuga and Dyangani Ose transform the Palais d’Iéna into a concourse for dialogue, both through action and conversation. The result is a discourse not on the physical expression of these women’s creativity, but on their origins - the reasons and thinking behind - telling their own tales.

‘Tales & Tellers’ is part of Art Basel Paris’s Public Program and will be staged at the Palais d’Iéna, Paris. The project is open to the public from 16th-20th October 2024, with a preview on October 15th. Online registration for exhibition guided tours and panel conversations will be available on miumiu.com from October 3.