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In a series of exquisitely rendered miniature paintings, naked women appear in various encounters with wild animals and plants: communicating with an owl, lying within a large green leaf, or transposed onto the taxidermied head of a deer. These are the latest works by Pakistani artist Muhammad Zeeshan who continues his explorations into how women have been and continue to be objectified and disempowered. Grass don’t grow on my land, the title of the artist’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Berlin, refers to a lack of progress or change in terms of mindset rather than …