Jessica Harrison, Karen, 2013

A very literal take on giving one’s heart away by the Scottish sculptor Jessica Harrison, who gives a gory twist to the twee porcelain figurines so often seen on grandmothers’ mantelpieces, drawing on seventeenth-century anatomical illustrations for the purpose. “I would describe my work as focusing on the division between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the interior and the exterior,” Harrison says. “Portraits of fear, dislocated from the body—the work is the result of a guilty surveillance, an observation of that which is private, a peep show of anxiety.”