left: Maria (2010); right: Dawn (2010).
British artist Jessica Harrison undermines the saccharine innocence of porcelain figurines in a manner which would no doubt appeal to a Surrealist and black humorist like Jan Svankmajer. As well as these recent pieces, her website features further contemporary takes on Surrealism including a number of pencil drawings, one of which is a self-portrait alluding to that Svankmajer favourite, Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Surrealism, graphic design and Barney Bubbles
• Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films