Courtesy of White Columns, New York. Photo: Marc Tatti.
Works by Josephine Halvorson and Kay Rosen are featured in the 15th White Columns Annual exhibition Looking Back, selected this year by the New York-based artist Elisabeth Kley.
As with previous White Columns Annuals, an individual or a collaborative team is invited to organize an exhibition based on their personal experiences and interactions with art in New York City during the previous year. In a straightforward way, the Annual exhibitions hope to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate—and engage with—New York’s constantly shifting cultural landscapes.
Through the recontextualization of artworks encountered in other circumstances, the exhibition hopes to establish, even temporarily, a new “narrative”—a conversation of sorts, amongst both artists and artworks that seeks to illuminate and/or explore certain underlying tendencies or connections that might otherwise have remained elusive or obscured. In rethinking aspects of the (fairly) recent past the exhibition hopes to provoke something akin to a sense of déjà vu, establishing a scenario that is at once both reflective and forward-thinking.
To learn more about Josephine Halvorson and Kay Rosen in Looking Back at White Columns, click here.