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Jeffrey Deitch continues its tradition of thematic art fair installations in its booth at Art Basel. The presentation brings together the work of contemporary artists who, through the representation of the figure, explore how our culture constructs identities, values and desires. Far from being an anachronistic genre, figuration today both subverts and builds on artistic traditions to find new and unconventional ways to represent the human figure. Verisimilitude sometimes lends itself to the fantastical, the surreal, the uncanny. Anthropomorphic forms can merge with abstraction. Realism …