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鈥楲ooking Back鈥� is the third installment of the White Columns Annual. The exhibition is now an annual fixture on White Columns鈥� calendar. Each year an individual (e.g. an artist, a curator, a writer, etc.) is invited to make an exhibition at White Columns based on their personal experience of looking at art in New York in the previous year. For the third 鈥楢nnual鈥� exhibition White Columns has invited the New York-based curator and writer Jay Sanders to select the artists and works. In a very straightforward sense the 鈥楢nnual鈥� exhibition hopes to reveal something of the complexities involved in trying to negotiate - and engage with - New York鈥檚 constantly evolving cultural landscape. The format of the exhibition inevitably encourages highly subjective and deeply personal responses to the realities of viewing art in New York. The 鈥楢nnual鈥� exhibition series hopes to illuminate aspects of the specific, yet highly idiosyncratic routes 鈥� geographical, intellectual, historical, social, etc. - individuals follow in an increasingly expansive and fragmented cultural environment. Through the re-contextualization of artworks encountered in other circumstances and contexts, the exhibition hopes to establish 鈥� albeit temporarily 鈥� a new 鈥榥arrative鈥�, a conversation, of sorts, amongst artists and artworks, that seeks to illuminate and/or explore certain underlying tendencies, conditions, or connections that perhaps might otherwise have remained elusive or obscured. In re-thinking the (fairly) recent past the exhibition hopes to provoke something akin to a sense of deja-vu, establishing a scenario that is at once both reflective and optimistic (forward thinking.)