Dive into the lair of Doctor von Hagens (Swiss Press Text 2018, by Aurélie Toninato) - Swiss Press Award
Tribune de Genève
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2018
Aurélie Toninato
The controversial Body Worlds exhibition premiered in Geneva in September, featuring 12 plastinated cadavers. The organizer, Opus One, invited the media to Germany to see the plastination process (which halts decomposition). It was also an opportunity to discover those who manipulate the dead and, above all, to question the concept, somewhere between pedagogy and the commodification of the body.
