For its second edition, in November 2022, the groundbreaking Noor Riyadh festival of light and contemporary art presents 190 monumental works signed by 130 artists from 40 countries and scattered in 40 emblematic locations throughout the city.

Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Dorothy Di Stefano and Jumana Ghouth and adviser Arnaud Morand, Noor Riyadh brings together Saudi and international artists such as Grimanesa Amorós, Gisela Colón, Douglas Gordon, winner of the Turner Prize, Alicja Kwade, Sabine Marcelis, Muhannad Shono, who represented Saudi Arabia at the Venice Biennale 2022, and French artists Daniel Buren, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Bertrand Lavier.

Entitled "We dream of new horizons", this second edition transforms the city into a dazzling nighttime gallery without walls, welcoming over 2.5 million visitors from international audiences to visitors from all over the globe.

Gathering a dedicated team, Manifesto manages the artist liaison, especially for Gisela Colón, but also the monitoring of artworks production and installation, their monitoring during the Festival and their dismantling, as well as supplier research for 82 of these monumental artworks in the public space. 

Drawing on cosmology, physics and biology, One Thousand Galaxies of Light (Starfield), (2022) by Gisela Colón is inspired by the night sky. The installation consists of an organic site-specific configuration of 100 silver stainless steel columned light structures standing 3 meters tall. The artist envisages an imaginary forest of mystical horizons, which leads to a vibrant world of the future. She imagines the timeless light as a marker of time and a reflection on the human condition, and the installation as an embodiment of the cosmic energy present in nature around us all.

The artwork was perfectly placed in the Wadi Namar, reflecting in the river the constellation of lights in this natural context of Riyadh.