Nativité Subversive: Plastique Secret

Archive note

Documentation of an underground 1962 Paris figurine collection depicting a nativity scene rendered in colored plastic rather than traditional ceramic or wood. The figures—arranged in conspiratorial posture around a central crib—were reportedly produced by an unnamed artisan collective operating outside official French Catholic manufacturing channels. The work suggests a deliberate inversion of sacred iconography through material transgression and modernist form. Collectors of mid-century art provenance and heterodox religious objects.