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You are now entering the human heart is a series of collaborative portraits of
transgender women in Poland, who, in recent years, have been actively seeking a public platform. This is largely the result of the national parliament welcoming its first openly transsexual delegate: Anna Grodzka, who underwent a sex reassignment treatment in 2009, and became a member of parliament in 2011.

This body of work builds on Ilona Szwarc's previous projects about socialization of women (American Girls, Rodeo Girls, and I am a woman and I feast on memory), and contemporary definitions of womanhood. This …