BALTIC, Gateshead NE8 3BA
Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings
![Amalia Pica, Yerkish, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Herald Street Gallery. Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 2019.](https://tit-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4223/baltic_animalesque_selection_(high_res)-4__large.jpg)
The curator of the show, Filipa Ramos, says that the starting point is Deleuze’s text 'Becoming-Animal', but it goes beyond the theory. Deleuze, while writing about Francis Bacon, states that between human and animal, there is a deep identity, a zone of indiscernibility, that is more profound than any sentimental identification. Review by Gulnaz Can