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 Pauline David, 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 Pauline David, but also the artwork 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. 

As you approach the Pavilion of Moonlight Horizon (2022), you find yourself drawn in by this universal nighttime landmark, where the moon acts as a frontier between the sun and the darkness. From the outside, the pavilion envelopes us in its mysterious protective force. Step inside to follow a pathway of stars that gently leads us towards our first encounter with the moon thanks to NASA archives.

Pavilion of Moonlight Horizon is the embodiment and story of the passing of time, the tides and our circadian clock. It is a poetic, romantic, artistic, scientific and magical experience that takes visitors on a journey of discovery as the sun is sometimes eclipsed behind the Earth, and at other times shines bright as day as the projection follows the phases of the moon at the rhythm of the tides, the wind and the passing of time.