Heidi Bucher

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Heidi Bucher worked in sculpture and mixed media to record and transform architectural space, treating rooms and domestic interiors as extensions of the body and memory. Her signature process involved casting the surfaces of inhabited spaces, walls, floors, and furniture, in latex and mother-of-pearl pigment, peeling these skins away as autonomous objects that preserved the imprint of lived experience. The resulting works occupy a precise threshold between the personal and the collective, addressing domestication, gender, and psychological interiority through material means. Born in Winterthur in 1926, she worked across Europe and the United States before her death in 1993.

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