The Bad Eggs of Baby City is a photographic series derived from the video installation The Last Performance. The work focuses on fragments of subjecthood generated within a closed system, presenting figures that appear misaligned, residual, or left behind by a structure designed to produce happiness.

 

These figures are not individual characters, but psychic residues. They function as parts of the self dispersed across different spaces and logics, no longer fully retrieved by the theatrical system that once required them. Their ‘badness’ is not moral, but systemic. They resemble failed models: roles that fall outside the script, bodies that cannot be reintegrated into the performance.

 

Innocent yet over-designed, calibrated and then abandoned, the figures occupy spaces that feel both playful and dislocated. They appear as misplaced beings within an optimised city, or as consciousness returned to an unfinished state. Here, failure does not signal collapse, but exposure. What becomes visible are the limits of a system that cannot stabilise every subject it produces.

 

The series turns looking itself into a question. When encountering these figures, are we observing others, or confronting disowned versions of ourselves? Rather than depicting childhood, The Bad Eggs of Baby City reflects on systems that fail to sustain coherent subjectivity. The figures have not exited the stage, but linger backstage as unresolved traces, fragments the system has not yet erased.