This imprint was created on a floor, in the home of the artist’s then-deceased parents. Characterised by a tight framing that highlights the overlapping of the parquet’s abstract and geometric forms, it is one of a set of pieces drawn from a room once exclusively reserved for the men of the family.

In addition to showing this interior in a new light, the artist literally and physically tore off a layer of that space, as if skinning it. It was a way of condemning discrimination within her middle-class patriarchal family.

This performative skinning, carried out in that uninhabited place, was documented by films and photographs (Häutung Herrenzimmer / Skinning the Gentlemen’s Room, 1978) that show just how much strength was needed to pull off that artificial skin, and how the process could be made into a liberating gesture.