Philippe Parreno: Noor pivots to light as the constitutive element of the exhibition, taking its title from the Arabic and Persian word for light and invoking the emanationist cosmology of the Persian mystic Suhrawardi, in which all creation flows from a Supreme Light of Lights. Illuminated marquees, specially crafted light fixtures, and algorithmically determined sequences create a living, mutable mise-en-scène in which objects respond to one another. A new animation, In the Moontime, drives drawings through Conway's "Game of Life" cellular automaton — panels lighting up and going dark across seven narrative families, generating stories that emerge, persist, and dissolve without beginning or end. Conceived as a tribute to Barbara Gladstone.
