Taking the polar opposite tack of literal Nativity Scenes is French artist and designer Émilie Voirin, who has designed a completely original, purely conceptual alternative. Realized in beech wood, each and every character in the Minimal Nativity Set, including the baby Jesus, is represented not in human or animal type, but rendered as a square block, identifiable only by the name emblazoned across. “The characters have lost their attributes and colors for a modern look that could appeal to each believers and atheists,” says the artist, as a result, “giving cost-free rein to folks’s imagination.” Traditionalists may be scandalized, but any person offered to pure abstractions will have cause to rejoice.
Pictures: Émilie Voirin
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