Babies
1995, original version: polystyrene, plaster, fiberglass, 350 × 260 × 126 cm (each), not preserved, fifteen pieces cast in fiberglass in 1999
Well babies, those are like angels of destruction. They’ve got normal little bodies and mutated mugs. It should be something between children’s innocence and something riddled with weirdly-spreading bacteria … Perhaps it’s about fear — I despise the word “globalization” — but it’s about certain fears from the commercialization of technology. Not that I don’t like technology, essentially I’m a bit of a techno-freak — well, I get a charge out of it, I like it, but I sense danger in it.
GALLERY
Because I lived in Prague 3 at the time, where the tower is, the local authorities asked me whether I would do something for them. When I brought the first sketches of my idea, the authorities obviously had a problem with it. It took about a year and half of negotiating before the mayor of Prague 3 approved the project. It was very complicated.
Babies are kind of weird things. They don’t know the rules. So they might kill someone.
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