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Citing a new, technological brilliance capable of changing the way in which we perceive reality, ‘Under the Jaguar Sun’ unites a group of contemporary painters whose work attends to mixed uses of natural and artificial light for their subject matters. Future-oriented visions of alternative worlds imbue the classical painterly quest with new challenges; the plasticity of the medium, for example, at once imparts reflections on modern materials in Appleby’s work, and stymies the relinquishment of a past depicted by ghostly emanations in Guo’s. Delighting in new pictorial languages adapted to …