I Will Keep A Light Burning

Artwork: Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, I Will Keep A Light Burning, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris, May 23 2026

On May 23 this year, French artist Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil participated in the European Night of Museums at Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection in Paris. He recreated an artwork originally commissioned for an exhibition titled Arduna at ALULA Contemporary Art Museum, Saudi Arabia, co-curated in partnership with Centre Pompidou (1 January-15 April 2026). The artwork I Will Keep A Light Burning, featured hundreds of candles lit gradually over the course of the evening, replicating a constellation of the future: a vast circular installation beneath the glass rotunda mirroring a map of the Paris sky one hundred years from now. In one night, the candles reflect this celestial star map only to burn out. An ephemeral experience melding the present time with a distant future.