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Corinne De San Jose turned 40 recently and has been thinking about her own mortality again, but where her ruminations used to be tinged with a morbid sentimentality, it now feels rather fundamental and quotidian. It’s not so much the nearness of death that obsesses her but rather the slow rot that transpires in getting there, and the nonchalance with which she chooses to confront it. “The body withering away through time is not poetic. It is what it is.” I’ve Been Hiding In The Smallest Places, her new show, is literally a series of self-portraits, but not in the passive representational way …