Heidi Bucher was a Swiss artist best known for her innovative use of latex and her exploration of the physical boundaries between the body and its surroundings. Bucher’s practice can be considered an intricate process of preservation and metaphorical molting, which results in a poetic visualization of the relationship humans have with their bodies, their past, and the spaces they inhabit.
Through this investigation into the female body and domestic spaces, Bucher’s work seamlessly integrated two contemporaneous themes artists were grappling with during the 1970s and 1980s: the architecture of public and private spaces, and associations of femininity with the body