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The group exhibition Picturing the Animal unites works by four international artists that gesture to the sentiment of human experience and the production of meaning (knowledge) around it. The matter-of-fact understanding of a picture as a representation of physical reality has been delineated within painting, and with this canonical evolution came an invitation to interrogate the less-easily-categorical processes of such fabrication. Among a million others: the bearing of soul.

“Linguistic relativity” refers to the hypothesis that a language’s structure influences a speaker’s output, an idea …