Noor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s pageant of light and art, is about to light up the evening sky as soon as once more in November.
Following its inaugural version in 2021, this 12 months’s pageant will triple in dimension, bringing collectively greater than 100 Saudi and worldwide artists, who will showcase over 120 installations in over 40 places throughout the town of Riyadh.
Over the course of simply over two weeks (Nov 3-19), the town will come alive with immersive site-specific installations, monumental public artworks, ephemeral sculptures, art trails and digital actuality choices.
The line-up contains world-renowned artists equivalent to teamLab, Daniel Buren, Douglas Gordon and Alicja Kwade, and Saudi expertise Muhannad Shono, Ayman Zedani, Sarah Brahim and Ahaad Alamoudi.
Angelo Bonello’s ‘Run Beyond’ iron and LED lights set up eventually 12 months’s Noor Riyadh. Photo: Noor Riyadh
Noor Riyadh’s theme this 12 months “We Dream Of New Horizons” is centred round a way of hope for the long run, with connotations which might be constructive, optimistic and reflective of a confidence in renewal and transformation.
The pageant is co-curated by Herve Mikaeloff, Dorothy Di Stefano and Jumana Ghouth.
Additional programmes embrace group exhibition From Spark To Spirit, which is able to begin on Nov 3 and run until Feb 4, 2023, at JAX 03 in Riyadh.
Curated by Neville Wakefield and Gaida AlMogren, the exhibition traces the function light performs in shaping our relationship, to a world the place light has develop into the sign of change.
Noor Riyadh, offered by Riyadh Art and the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, was the primary of the Riyadh Art programmes to launch final 12 months. It is a component of an even bigger undertaking to flip the town into “a gallery without walls”.
