Six Degrees | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Six Degrees | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Lisa Sigal’s Line-up began as a proposal to paint a gesture into the surroundings of the New Museum. Looking out the window of the New Museum’s fifth-floor Resource Center, Sigal chose a color in the surrounding landscape, taking inspiration from the seafoam green bicycle lane (on Prince Street). A metaphor for the effects of the New Museum on its new neighborhood, Sigal imagines the line continuing into the horizon and beyond. In the realization of this project in New York, Sigal worked with individuals and organizations, depending upon their cooperation, counsel, and support to shape the final project. Inspired by the Museum as Hub project, Sigal also worked with artists Essam Abdallah (Cairo), Erwin van Doorn (Eindhoven), Paulina Lasa (Mexico City), and Sangdon Kim (Seoul)—each involved with Museum as Hub partner projects—to continue the line around the world. Photographs document each artist’s interpretation of Sigal’s request in the context of his or her city, the angle of the line alluding to the next appearance of Sigal’s line in its global circumnavigation.