Prague looks completely different if you look at it through the eyes of the scandalous sculptor and artist, the world-famous provocateur David Cerny. His unique work has transformed this traditional European city with a rich history, culture, and magnificent monuments of ancient architecture into a giant art venue. The famous head of Franz Kafka adorns the main entrance to one of the shopping malls, the fountain with male statues peeing on the map of the Czech Republic stands at the entrance to the Franz Kafka Museum, and faceless crawling babies are the main attraction of Kampa Park.

Babies by David Cerny were “born” in 2000. For the first time, the general public saw them crawling up the outer wall of the TV tower. In less than a few days, a relic of the communist past, the Zizkov TV Tower, became one of the most visited places in the city and a symbol of modern Prague surrealism.

Later, Cerny’s Babies were transferred to another place, to the picturesque Kampa Park, located on the island of the same name. The sculptures can be seen at any time in the park, unlike the Zizkov Tower. To prevent the sculptures from falling under the weight of snow in winter, they are removed and installed on the tower again in the spring. But in the park, Babies “crawl” regardless of the season.

What did the sculptor want to show by creating black naked babies without faces or, rather, with odd barcodes instead of smiling children’s faces? David Cerny himself never explained his ideas. The public had no choice but to make their own guesses and create all sorts of hypotheses. Some people think that as the unique babies first appeared on the city’s TV tower, they are a symbol of the consumer society zombified by television.

According to another theory, the modern sculptor expressed his protest against abortion by creating Babies. The sculptures appeared amid heated debates on this issue in the Czech Republic. No matter what inspired the master, people still liked his creation. Babies are visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. No wonder their glossy black backs have long become gold because of endless warm embraces.