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Candice Lin, Mire Lee, and Jeffrey Gibson are among the artists behind the 49 proposals.

High Line Offers Last Chance to Comment on Plinth Proposals

Candice Lin, Cat-Demon Protector (2023). Rendering courtesy of the High Line.

There's still time to comment on New York City's 2026 and 2027 High Line Plinth commissions before submissions close on 25 August.

The public's feedback will be taken and considered by High Line's curatorial team, who will select the shortlist.

Forty-nine proposals were selected for public comment from 5 June.

Mexico City artist Pedro Reyes proposed a large cube lace-work of 5,000 guns welded together. The weapons would be sourced from buyback schemes in collaboration with community groups attempting to keep guns off the street.

Pedro Reyes, Safe (2023). Rendering

Pedro Reyes, Safe (2023). Rendering courtesy of the High Line.

São Paulo artist Renata Lucas's The Monument Project, meanwhile, inverts the gaze of the High Line commission. The plinth becomes a viewing platform that provides the only vantage point of a sentence strewn across surrounding buildings.

New Zealand artist Simon Denny's proposal for the plinth introduces a technological element. DNA data storage Terrier uses sculpture combined with augmented reality to visually represent a component of a patented futuristic mechanism for storing data using DNA.

Viewers would point their smartphone cameras at the sculpture, allowing a Scottish Terrier to break loose from the molecules and move around.

Simon Denny, DNA data storage Terrier (US 2021/0225461 A1: METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA STORAGE, 2021) (2023). Rendering

Simon Denny, DNA data storage Terrier (US 2021/0225461 A1: METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA STORAGE, 2021) (2023). Rendering courtesy of the High Line.

Other artists with proposals for the plinth include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Jeffrey Gibson, and Candice Lin.

The Plinth is currently occupied by Pamela Rosenkranz's hot pink Old Tree, which will be replaced in 2024 by the fourth commission, which is yet to be selected from the previous shortlist.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, United We Fall Or Remember The Future Forgotten (2013). Rendering

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, United We Fall Or Remember The Future Forgotten (2013). Rendering courtesy of the High Line.

Over 1,200 comments have been made to-date on the proposals for the fifth and sixth Plinths.

An exhibition of maquettes from the shortlisted artists will be shown on the High Line in early 2024 before a winner is chosen. —[O]

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