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 Shohei Fujimoto,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 Shohei Fujimoto, 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. 

Shohei Fujimoto is known for his use of precisely controlled laser light, which he channels through half-transparent mirrors to explore perception and space.

This unique process creates the idea of a physical object in space, which exists on an optical axis sketched out by laser projectors. While the object appears real, it has no physical properties.

The latter presents a psychological quandary in her artwork Intangible #From (2019): When presented with an object, the viewer will instinctively try to understand its physical nature. Fujimoto takes this assumption one step further. If the viewer sees an object as physical, he suggests, one also questions whether the object is alive or not – and then perhaps imbues it with traits such as consciousness or even a soul.