September 18 2025 -> February 26 2026
Fondazione Prada
Largo Isarco 2
20139 Milan
Italy
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“Sueño Perro: Instalación Celuloide de Alejandro G. Iñárritu” is a global multisensory exhibition rooted in the intersection of cinema and visual art, created by Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros (2000), Inarritu’s legendary debut feature, “Sueño Perro” brings to light never-before-seen footage which speaks to Amores Perros’ enduring themes of love, betrayal, and violence. These gritty vignettes, once abandoned on the cutting room floor and conserved for a quarter of a century in the film archives at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, capture the charged and interconnected sociopolitical realities of Mexico City, still relevant decades later.
Drawing on the raw power and visual poetry of these forgotten images, Iñárritu reimagines their impact through a mosaic of celluloid and sound. At the heart of the installation is a deep reverence for the materiality of 35mm film, whose physical grain, flicker, and warmth evoke a deep sense of nostalgia.
“Sueño Perro” marks Fondazione Prada’s third collaboration with Iñárritu, who conceived the film program “Flesh, Mind and Spirit” in Seoul (2009) and Milan (2016), and the experimental VR installation “CARNE y ARENA” in Milan (2017), which was part of the official selection of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and awarded a special Oscar by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
As part of “Sueño Perro”, a visual and sound display will be conceived by the Mexican writer and journalist Juan Villoro for the first floor of the building. Titled “Mexico 2000: The Moment that Exploded”, it will offer a second layer of narrative from a different perspective. With his display, Villoro will map the political, familial, societal, religious and economic conditions that gave birth to the three intertwined stories narrated in this film.
