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 Jean-Michel Othoniel, 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. 

Although not the largest work of art displayed at Noor, the dimensions of Yardang (2022), by Jean-Michel Othoniel, are an accomplishment all of their own. Weighing in at a phenomenal 3 tons, this abstract sculpture of mirrored bricks reflects the landscape around it to create a mise en abyme of likenesses. Like an image within an image, Yardang projects an infinitely recurring sequence of its surroundings. Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel allowed himself to be inspired by the unique shapes found in the deserts, such as the yardang of the work’s title: a rocky ridge created by wind erosion. In creating a crystallized landscape, this installation imagines a gigantic, pixelated mirror that breaks the environment up into hundreds of reflections and in turn constructs new multiplied and abstract versions.