Ape Culture Fourteen Nineteen As a statement disguised in

As a statement disguised in a poetic novel

a confused game began between the master

Ayrton Senna is absorbed in thought

the gun as purchasable part

and freewheeling experimentation with the medium of photography coalesce into a body of work that both parallels and defines the countercultural ethos of Steffens’ generation

Ape Culture Fourteen Nineteen As a statement disguised inApe Culture traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanitys closest relatives. In the Western historical representations of modernity, depictions of apes were traditionally used to show the absence of culture. Standing as a liminal figure separating humans and animals, the ape has, since ancient times, played a central role in the narrative of civilisational progress. This book, which appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the