Miranda July is an American artist, director, screenwriter, actress, and author of films, fiction, monologues, digital presentations, and live performances. She grew up in a family of writers, before becoming an established artist, she supported herself by working as a waitress, a blacksmith, a stripper and a taster for a well-known brand of carbonated drinks. Her artistic practice investigates the theme of intimacy and has a lot to do with political activism where July, avowedly feminist, questions consolidated hierarchies and conventional power dynamics. At the Fondazione Prada, her first museum exhibition is both a retrospective that traces the artist's thirty-year career and the opportunity to present the new work entitled F.A.M.I.L.Y. (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), a multi-channel video installation documenting the year-long collaboration between July and seven performers on Instagram.