Tino Sehgal's Ephemeral Encounters at Palais de Tokyo

Tino Sehgal's 'Carte blanche' at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (until December 18, 2016) transforms the museum into a series of constructed situations where visitors engage with performers of different ages. The exhibition begins with a curtain by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, then participants are guided by children, adolescents, middle-aged individuals, and an elderly person, each posing existential questions like 'What is progress?' and 'What is your deepest desire?'. A new performance based on Ann Lee, a manga character previously used by Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, features a girl interacting with a boy named Marcel and the audience. Other works include Pierre Huyghe's 'Living/cancer/variation', Daniel Buren's 'Quatre fois moins ou Quatre fois plus?', James Coleman's film 'Box' (1977), and an installation by Philippe Parreno. Sehgal, a Turner Prize nominee and winner of the Golden Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, creates an experience that relies on human interaction and memory, leaving no physical documentation. The review notes that while the show is immersive, it adds little new to Sehgal's previous works in Milan (2008) and at the Guggenheim (2010).