Kevin Wilson's short story "The Baby with Teeth" was the driving impulse behind this installation, which was developed together with scenographer Susanne Quehenberger.

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Our installation adopts the perspective of the story's narrator, endowing Wilson's baby with a magnified sense of mystery and moral ambivalence: The protagonist views the infant both as a lustful, animalistic, Dionysian symbol of freedom, and a figure of uncanny terror, disease, and disgust.

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These perceived virtues and vices are coded in the twisted symbolism of the space, which depicts – depending on the angle of observation – a child's bedroom, a temple, a tomb, or the scene of an unimaginable carnage. Two guardians – white teddy bears – speak too to this ambiguity, alternately soothing and savaging visitors to their domain.