Soliloquy with ape

The project Soliloquy with Ape examines the border between human and animal. In several manifestations, a fictional conversation between a historical object and a literary figure unfolds. The historical object titled “The Non-descript” dates back to 1828 and is a stuffed monkey, shaped to appear human – as if being the final “missing link” between apes and humans. A text developed in reaction to this object, addressing and questioning it, is contrasted with fragments from the novel “The Unnamable” by Samuel Beckett, a novel circling around the dissolution of the narrating subject itself.

graphic score | series of lithographs (three colours) , each 50cm x 70cm | 2022