Neighbor Institutions, Le Palais de Tokyo and Musée d’Art Modern de Paris joined forces earlier this summer to open an exhibition dedicated to young emerging artists called Dynasty. After a long search, the two curatorial teams selected 40 French artists — including those living abroad and foreign artists living in France — to produce a work for each venue. The result is one exhibition with two, almost mirror exhibits.

With the same infatuation for the next young artist-du-jour as The Whitney and The New Museum’s recently-curated Biennale and “Younger Than Jesus” Triennale in New York, Dynasty’s premise is a fashionably hyped one. But their duo object and duo venue idea gives it a structured feel the other two shows lacked. The approach also offers a more comprehensible introduction to the artists’ work and is an apt reflection of one of contemporary art’s overarching themes: the agency of the institution on the production of art.

Amoung many other things, you’ll get to see a coagulation of a year’s worth of ominously hanging museum dust (Yuhsin U. Chang’s “Poussière dans le Palais de Tokyo,” photo at left), a beautiful film on impotence (no joke) filmed in Angola (“Liberdade” by Gabriel Abranted and Benjamin Crotty), cell phone-quality videos of everyday life in Paris (Mohamed Bourouissa’s “Temps Mort”) and a taxidermized hyena (“untitled” by Nicholas Milhé). In other words, there’s something for every taste, form and medium.

The exhibition runs until September 5th in Paris. For more information, check out the “Dynasty” website at www.dynasty-expo.com.

- Chloe Roubert