Skin. To question the constructions of gender, to free oneself from the weight of the past, of memories, to strip the patriarchy, to question the place of the body. Heidi Bucher (1926-1993) created latex “skins” to evoke these transformations. Among others. But all his work is imbued with this idea of moulting. It is therefore quite logical that the retrospective devoted to him at the Kunstmuseum in Bern
