Paris' Grand Palais unveiled Friday a new immersive exhibition which invites visitors to touch and feel the art on show.

“Usually when you approach the art, it is something that you can watch but you cannot touch,” explains Roberto Fantauzzi the founder of the Balloon Museum, which creates inflatable art events.

Here, however, he says, “it is forbidden not to touch."

For “The Me that Becomes Through You,” New York artist Alex Schweder collaborated with composer Nick Dunston to transform air into musical notes as it fills up large spheres contained in a cage.

“Each sphere has an organ, like in a church, where the wind from the fan that fills the sphere is making sound. It’s always playing live because the sequence, each form has a different loop. And so they’re always harmonising and changing one another's sound,” Schweder says.

The exhibition, titled “Euphoria: Art is in the Air”, runs from June 6 to Sept. 7, 2025, at the Grand Palais.

The previous edition of the show in 2022 became the most successful exhibit of the year for Paris, attracting more than 700,000 visitors.

It means the Grand Palais should return with a bang after its 4-year renovation.

AP video by Deborah Gouffran