Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil unveiled I Will Keep A Light Burning, an original commission at AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, in the exhibition Arduna, realized in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou open from February 1 through April 15, 2026.
I Will Keep a Light Burning brings together the past and the present, directing them toward the future. Candles are lit in an arrangement corresponding to the configuration of the stars as they will appear above the same site one hundred years after the performance. As the candles burn and eventually go out, only photographs of the installation remain, underscoring how moments fade and disappear, surviving solely through images. In this way, the work reveals the ephemeral illusion that art itself embodies—not only as a record of what has been, but also as a gesture toward what can never be fully grasped—suggesting that representation is less about preserving reality than about confronting its continual disappearance.
