Walking in NYL is a video work by Renée Green that unfolds through the artist’s ambulatory movement between two cities: New York and Lisbon. Structured as a series of wanderings, the film invites the viewer to drift alongside Green as she traverses urban landscapes charged with layered histories and personal resonance. Rather than presenting the cities as stable or singular locations, the work continually shuttles between them, unsettling linear notions of time, place, and belonging.

The rhythm of the film is shaped by walking itself. New York appears through the compressed tempo of Midtown traffic, punctuated by the sharp insistence of car horns, while Lisbon is experienced as a slower, more tactile descent along steep, cobbled streets. Moments of deceleration occur when Green pauses to attend to small details, weathered surfaces, chipped paint revealing tawny stone beneath, allowing the camera to linger on traces that suggest prior lives embedded in the built environment. These shifts in pace foreground walking as a method of looking, thinking, and remembering.

As with much of Green’s broader practice, Walking in NYL engages questions of origin and displacement, the instability of identity, and the tension between the individual experience of place and its larger cultural narratives. By refusing a fixed point of view, the work proposes walking as a critical and poetic strategy, one that allows histories to surface through sensory attention, chance encounters, and the act of moving through space itself.