interview OLIVIER ZAHM portrait ALEXIS DAHAN The 43-year-old French artist Philippe Parreno incarnates his generation’s Utopian vision of art, breaking the boundaries of the White Cube, blurring the notion of autonomous identity and the specificity of artistic media. He often works in collaboration with other artists, which he terms an “aesthetic of alliances.” Last year he wrote an elegant voice-over text for the video he made in China with artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, Stories Are Propaganda. He is currently working on an opera with 15 of the most creative minds in art today. But he says he’s ready for a change. What’s going on? Is it time for nostalgia? OLIVIER ZAHM — Tu joues beaucoup sur la difficulté d’identification de ton travail. PHILLIPE PARRENO — Ce n’est pas vraiment un jeu. J’ai toujours pensé que la forme, c’est d’abord un projet. Sans projet, il n’y a pas de forme. J’ai continué de…