Dana Fiona Armour, "Solenoglyphous C.C", 2023.
The Bright of the Desert Moon
As one of the most ambitious festivals of its kind, Noor Riyadh is a citywide celebration of light and art, trasnforming the urban landscape into an open-air museum. Rooted in the vibrant cosmopolitan capital of Saudi Arablia, the 2023 edition, with Jérôme Sans as its lead curator, alongside Pedro Alonzo, Alaa Tarabzouni and Fahad Bin Naif, will open on November 30th and run until December 16th 2023. An urban project is one of the fastest developing cities on earth, the festival showcases a world in full mutation, like a whirlwind in the desert. In the midst of these accelerated transformations, the festival aims to write a story spread out in several locations, like a symphony in different acts within the city which unfolds at night.
Set in Riyadh, a burgeoning metropolis planted in the middle of vast arid land, the exhibition considers the desert as a place of reconnection where our differences dissipate. Desert light blinds as much as it guides us, deceives as much as it leaves us awestruck. Descending rays refract and seem to bend back towards us: light, they reveal, is not stagnant but moves around the atmosphere, as if sowing seed or watering the dry, uniform grounds.
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